Jennifer V.

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“Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: calvin, hobbes, humor, intelligence

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“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life

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“I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Want

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“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.”
― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

tags: history

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“Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report?
Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes."
Calvin: Academia, here I come!”
― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

tags: humor-education

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Goodreads Librarians Group — 347241 members — last activity 4 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Mixed Remixed Festival — 171 members — last activity Jan 21, 2019 07:18AM
an on-line book club for readers to discuss books about the mixed-race and multiracial experience picked by the Mixed Remixed team up to 10 times per ...more

The Homestead Museum Fiction Book Club — 13 members — last activity May 21, 2021 09:46AM
Books can connect us with history in new and exciting ways. Each fiction book club series focuses on a subject that relates to the history of the Los ...more