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!
BILL WATTERSONIf you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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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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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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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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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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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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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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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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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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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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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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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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