Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
BILL WATTERSONGood friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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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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Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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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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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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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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