I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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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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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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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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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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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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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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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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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