Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
BILL WATTERSONThat’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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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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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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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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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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