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 WATTERSONIn the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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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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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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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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It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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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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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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