I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
BILL WATTERSONI don’t think you’ve ever invited me to… Calvin’s Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin’s Mom: You’re contagious! You can’t have anyone over to play!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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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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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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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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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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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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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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