As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
BILL WATTERSONTo invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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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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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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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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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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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.
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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