I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.


Bill Watterson

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My life needs a rewind/erase button.
BILL WATTERSON
To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.
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Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, bra...
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I hate to subject it to too much analysis, but one thing I have fun with is the rarity of things bei...
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Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet ...
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The timber wolves will be our friends.We'll stay up late and howl,At the moon, till nighttime ends,B...
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Whenever I hear about people trying to rediscover the "child within," I want to scream.
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I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by H...
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Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.
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If you don't have anything to say just keep quiet! Provoking a reaction isn't the same as saying som...
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The kind of girl I was attracted to in school and eventually married.
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. . . it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well t...
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of...
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A REAL job is a job you hate.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if...
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There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is.
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Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to ...
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If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 minutes, than it's probably not worth...
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You can lead people to the truth, but you can't make them understand it.
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How come we play war and not peace?"
"Too few role models.
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Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of cons...
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Now what state do you live in?'
'Denial.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas...
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I was not prepared for the resulting attention. Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and th...
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I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find the inner mo...
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these ...
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Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better t...
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By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an i...
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A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be...
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I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
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Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster th...
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It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
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[Calvin: A 6-year-old boy who thinks like a grown-up and fantasizes like a child.] Calvin is very fr...
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