If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
BILL WATTERSONEvery time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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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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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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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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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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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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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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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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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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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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