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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.
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You know, maybe we don't need enemies. Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
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For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.
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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 gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.
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I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.
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Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN
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I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.
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But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
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