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.
BILL WATTERSONButtons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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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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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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