In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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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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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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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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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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