My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
BILL WATTERSONI’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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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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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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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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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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