There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
BILL WATTERSONIsn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Someday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.
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To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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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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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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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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