Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
BILL WATTERSONI’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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 was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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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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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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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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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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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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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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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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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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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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