But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
BILL WATTERSONI’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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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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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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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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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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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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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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