People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
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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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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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