I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
BILL WATTERSONSuddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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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 wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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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 was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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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.
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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.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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