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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

by Bill Watterson

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Mar 10, 2026 05:32AM

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“Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric

tags: discworld, rincewind

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“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

tags: crazy, funny, words

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“They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousin of the master of the earth. Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood.”
― Richard Preston, the Hot Zone

tags: science

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“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
― William Faulkner

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“He saw virus particles shaped like snakes, in negative images. They were white cobras tangled among themselves, like the hair of Medusa. They were the face of nature herself, the obscene goddess revealed naked. This life form thing was breathtakingly beautiful. As he stared at it, he found himself being pulled out of the human world into a world where moral boundaries blur and finally dissolve completely. He was lost in wonder and admiration, even though he knew that he was the prey. (149)”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

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