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.
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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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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