Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
BILL WATTERSONAs you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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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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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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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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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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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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Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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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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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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