I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
BILL WATTERSONBut Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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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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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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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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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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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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