Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
BILL WATTERSONNever argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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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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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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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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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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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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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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