As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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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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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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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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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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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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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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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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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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