In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
BILL WATTERSONYou’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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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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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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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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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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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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