Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
BILL WATTERSONI can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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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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Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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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.
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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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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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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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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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