Bill Watterson Quotes
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If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
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I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
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Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
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I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
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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'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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A real job is a job you hate.
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If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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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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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
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I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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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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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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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.