I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
BILL WATTERSONDad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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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 not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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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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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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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?
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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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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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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