Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
BILL WATTERSONI hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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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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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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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.
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For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
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I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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