Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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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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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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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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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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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’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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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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I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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