If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
BILL WATTERSONLife is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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