The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
BILL WATTERSONGod put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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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 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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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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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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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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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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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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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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