Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
BILL WATTERSONI liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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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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Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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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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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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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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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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