The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSONThe truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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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, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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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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