Bill Watterson Quotes

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own.

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They can't chain my spirit My spirit runs free Walls can't contain it Laws can't restrain it Authority has no power over it

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I didn't want 'Calvin and Hobbes' to coast into halfhearted repetition, as so many long-running strips do. I was ready to pursue different artistic challenges, work at a less frantic pace ... and start restoring some balance to my life.

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If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy.

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Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer conglomerates. Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously It's a beautiful world all right.

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Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

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I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway And what good is originality if you can't crank it out

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Mothers are the necessity of invention.

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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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True, comics are a popular art, and yes, I believe their primary obligation is to entertain, but comics can go beyond that, and when they do, they move from silliness to significance.

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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

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It took hundreds of years for these woods to grow, and they leveled it in a week. It's gone. After they build new houses here, they'll have to widen the roads and put up gas stations, and pretty soon the whole area will just be a big strip. Eventually there won't be a nice spot left anywhere. I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

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If someone wants to be a cartoonist, let's see him develop his own strip instead of taking over the duties of someone else's. We've got too many comic strip corpses being propped up and passed for living by new cartoonists who ought to be doing something of their own. If a cartoonist isn't good enough to make it on his own work, he has no business being in the newspaper.

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I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

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To make a business decision, you don't need much philosophy all you need is greed, and maybe a little knowledge of how the game works.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

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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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From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

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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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Heck, what's a little extortion among friends

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Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work. Sometimes I work all day if I'm under a crunch I take a day off here and there if I have something else pressing or if I'm just tired of what I'm doing . . .

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We all want to go to heaven, but nobody wants to do what it takes to get there.

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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

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