You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
BILL WATTERSONHistory 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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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’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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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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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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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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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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