I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
BILL WATTERSONThe strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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