Bill Watterson Quotes

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• I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
• It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
• There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
• I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.
• Genius is never understood in its own time.
• Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame…
• A real job is a job you hate.
• Repetition is the death of magic.
• Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.
• Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not…
• You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
• Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?..... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
• Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
• I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.
• Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
• Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or…
• Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find…
• 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…
• You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
• 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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