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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 (1995)

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

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!

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"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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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