Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
BILL WATTERSONReality continues to ruin my life.
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Someday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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