Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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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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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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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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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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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Isn’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?
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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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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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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