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.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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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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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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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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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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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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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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