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By Bill Watterson
Having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another. Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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- Some Thoughts on the Real World by One Who Glimpsed It and Fled (Kenyon College commencement address), May 20, 1990
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- Kenyon College
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From Bill Watterson's commencement address to the Kenyon College class of 1990, "Some Thoughts on the Real World by One Who Glimpsed It and Fled", given on May 20, 1990. Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, was a Kenyon graduate of 1980. Kenyon prints these two sentences on its own page of memorable commencement speeches. In the full text the first sentence begins "But having an enviable career".