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

Bill Watterson

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
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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Loopholes Pubbawup
Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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Appreciating Giving Thinking
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Common Ignore Plenty Sense
Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Boys Inscrutable Omen
Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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Assembly Baby Cheaper Dad Light Sears
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Creating Good Life Thinking
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Command Information Thorough Useless
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
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
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Allow Current History Need Prejudices Versions
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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Frustration Life Like Running
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
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Funny Inspirational Sarcastic
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less

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