Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
BILL WATTERSONDo 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I don’t think you’ve ever invited me to… Calvin’s Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin’s Mom: You’re contagious! You can’t have anyone over to play!
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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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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I 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.
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To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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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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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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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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Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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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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Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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