[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
BILL WATTERSONAt school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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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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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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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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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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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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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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