Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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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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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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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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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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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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