I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSONPeople think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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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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