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.
BILL WATTERSONSo the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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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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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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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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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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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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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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