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.
BILL WATTERSONNow if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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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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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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