Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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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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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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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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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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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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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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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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