As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
BILL WATTERSONI tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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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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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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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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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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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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