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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

Bill Watterson

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Art Book Comics Hands
With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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Decision Kind Ourselves Recognize
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
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
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
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Allow Current History Need Prejudices Versions
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Car Mind Running
For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Curiosity Ideas Play Years
Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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Hobbes Thinking Wells
It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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Lobotomy Needs Saws
I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Dust Say Significant Specks
Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Faster Reading Sweat
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
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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Long Memories Outside School Successful Term
I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Dessert Food Funny Vegetarian
Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Good Friend More Money Needs
Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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Envy Successful Years
They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Law Lawn Over Running Spirit Wall
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Cute Friday Life Sunday
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Faces People Possums
My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Lips Moving Thinking
Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Courage Different Everything Lonely Pretty
I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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Country Friendship People Rationalizing Real Skills
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Best Friend Friendship Inspirational
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Decision Desire Motivational Ourselves Thinking

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