You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
BILL WATTERSONA 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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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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Barney’s Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said “Eat your peas.” Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney’s Mom never found out where he’d gone, Cause Barney didn’t tell her. T
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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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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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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 wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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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.
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