Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
BILL WATTERSONIt’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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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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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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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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