From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSONIn 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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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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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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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’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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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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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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