It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSONSince 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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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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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.
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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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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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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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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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