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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.

Bill Watterson

You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Afford Ignorant Knowledge Least Paralyzing
Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Hobbes Progress Scientific Progress
I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Detours Ideas Recognizing Success Trying
If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Different Inevitable Media Needs
Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Appreciate Late Miracle
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Burden Historical Terrible
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
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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Everyone Knows Letter Played Score Word
We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Funny Inspirational Science
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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Firsts Hobbes Use
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Faces People Possums
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
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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Funny Guess Moving School
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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Craft Different Editorial Joke Taste Technique

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