Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
BILL WATTERSONI don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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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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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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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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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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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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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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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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Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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