Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
BILL WATTERSONLife is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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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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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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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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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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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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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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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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