History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
BILL WATTERSONThey can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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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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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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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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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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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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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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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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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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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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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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The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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