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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

Bill Watterson

That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
BILL WATTERSON

Bad Perseverance Remarkable Worse
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Issues Reality Special
Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Alive Art Moving
If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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Butter Control Funny Life Peanut
You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Afford Ignorant Knowledge Least Paralyzing
I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
BILL WATTERSON

Higher Paper Standards
Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
BILL WATTERSON

Looks never Prepared
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Dessert Food Funny Vegetarian
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
BILL WATTERSON

Lettering Reflection Way Writing
MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Mom Thirsty Water
The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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Admire Special World
It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Light Sleep Summer
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
BILL WATTERSON

Football Sports Thinking
I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
BILL WATTERSON

Comic Existentialism Laughing Strips

I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

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