Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
BILL WATTERSONThe 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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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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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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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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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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