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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

— Bill Watterson

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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book (1995)

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

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!

"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"

Calvin and Hobbes (1985)

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

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