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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
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Winning
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I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
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Good friends are hard to come by... I need more money.
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I always think of Popeye and Barney Google as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
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If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ...Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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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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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
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Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.
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It's always better to leave the party early.
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The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Calvin:It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means? Television: ...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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