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.
BILL WATTERSONReality continues to ruin my life.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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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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It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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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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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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