Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
BILL WATTERSONOn the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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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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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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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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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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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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Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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