I 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!
BILL WATTERSONEvery artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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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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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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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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