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Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson

That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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Bad Perseverance Remarkable Worse
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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Avoiding Hobbies Slips
Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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Mean Opiates Television
If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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Inspirational Nature Stars
I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Homework Negotiation Procrastinating Skills Use
It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Done Hard Surprising
And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Admission Anyone Exciting Gate More
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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Accomplish Happier Happy Meaning Trouble
Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Dance Hard Maybe Number Special Tell
It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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Art Gratifying People Someone Write Writing
Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Beautiful Grow Up Thinking
On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Cultural Disintegrating Impact Less Money
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Contact None Sometimes Think Universe
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Bumper Funny Mind Sticker Wander
I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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Enjoy School Smock Sunday
Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Dad Morning Three
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Color Crayon Order Perfect Pointy
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Dark Imagine Thinking
Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Alive Art Moving
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Humorous Running Solid Water
As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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Congratulations Forever Long
MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Mom Thirsty Water
It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Beautiful Life Success
All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Looks Media Thinking
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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Bird Bugs Taste

Reality continues to ruin my life.

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