Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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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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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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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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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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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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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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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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