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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Bill Watterson
    “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
    tags: books, comfort, rain, reading, tea
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    Bill Watterson
    “Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new!
    A new year ... a fresh, clean start! It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy ... let's go exploring!”
    ― Bill Watterson, It's a Magical World
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    Bill Watterson
    “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
    ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
    tags: army, fighting, peace, soldiers, war
    1300 likes

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  • #5
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, dumb, humor, information, school
    529 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37057 likes

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  • #7
    Bill Watterson
    “Now what state do you live in?'
    'Denial.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: denial, humor
    372 likes

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  • #8
    Bill Watterson
    “Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower?

    Of course not. Don't be silly.

    Even if I didn't use it in the house?”
    ― Watterson Bill, Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin
    101 likes

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  • #9
    Max Brooks
    “I struggled so hard for a goal, without realizing that the goal is the struggle. It’s what makes me stronger, smarter, and better. Growth doesn’t come from a comfort zone, but from leaving it.”
    ― Max Brooks, Minecraft: The Island
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    Bill Watterson
    “Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: stories
    201 likes

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  • #14
    Bill Watterson
    “If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?”
    ― Bill Watterson, It's a Magical World
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    Bill Watterson
    “I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: humor-art
    365 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, insufficiency
    226 likes

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  • #20
    Bill Watterson
    “I'M SIGNIFICANT!!!
    ...
    Say's the dust speck.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes-reality
    82 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
    24158 likes

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    Brandon Sanderson
    “He ate my horse.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
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  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: friendship, frodo
    3554 likes

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  • #22
    Shel Silverstein
    “Anything is possible. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: inspirational
    401 likes

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  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    303 likes

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    Max Brooks
    “it’s not failure that matters, but how you recover from it.”
    ― Max Brooks, Minecraft: The Island
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
    21824 likes

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  • #24
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127112 likes

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  • #25
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

    - Breeze”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: humor, remaining-silent, reticence
    1485 likes

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  • #26
    Bill Watterson
    “Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.”
    ― Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere
    tags: humor
    107 likes

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  • #26
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: evil, future-inspirational
    970 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fly you fools”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: gandalf, guardianship
    558 likes

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  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: despair, elf, hope, legolas
    1231 likes

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  • #30
    Brandon Sanderson
    “But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
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  • #31
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101562 likes



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