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Actually, in a lot of ways, he never did. Schulz was afflicted all his life with a deep-seated sense of inferiority (sort of like that cartoon character -- oh, what was his name? . . . Charlie something?) that he never really go over no matter how successful he became. When David Michaelis' biography, Schulz and Peanuts, was published not long after Schulz died, Bill Watterson (the Calvin and Hobbes guy) wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal pointing out that, towards the end of his life, when Schulz had a really bad year financially, he would still pull in about $25 million -- and more than double that in a good year. By that standard, he was the most successful graphic artist in history. And yet, to his dying day, Schulz was always troubled by some deep-seated angst.

Still, my personal philosophy has always been that money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can make misery tolerable.

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Or is afflicted with Trumpian levels of stupidity and incompetence, and simply blames it on mere whiteness.

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