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.
BILL WATTERSONDad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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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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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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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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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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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 try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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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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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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