It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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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’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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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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[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,
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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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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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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