Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
BILL WATTERSONAh, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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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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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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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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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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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’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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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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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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