We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
BILL WATTERSONReading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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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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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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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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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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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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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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