If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
BILL WATTERSONTo invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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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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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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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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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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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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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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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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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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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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