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.
BILL WATTERSONReality continues to ruin my life.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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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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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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