You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
BILL WATTERSONIn the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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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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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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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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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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Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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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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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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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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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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