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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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If you can't win by reason, go for volume.
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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.
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Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.
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I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.
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I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
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I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.
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I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!
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The problem with people is that they're only human.
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I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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