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The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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It's always better to leave the party early.
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I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: 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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It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!
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I always think of Popeye and Barney Google as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.
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Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, 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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I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.
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I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
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Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
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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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That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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If you don't get a goodnight kiss, you get Kafka dreams.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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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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Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.
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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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