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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.

Bill Watterson

As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Clever Funny Time
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
Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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Avenue Cynical Hollywood Poised Raised Scary
No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Less Organized Sports
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Cute Friday Life Sunday
Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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Clock Funny Leader Roger
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
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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Around Figures Hang Right Secret Tricks
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
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
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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Aggerations Character Expression Moving
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
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
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Interesting Laughing Life Track

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