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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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If you don't get a goodnight kiss, you get Kafka dreams.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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I'd hate to have a kid like me.
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If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.
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I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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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: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they'll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won't be the same as what I grew up with.
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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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Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.
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I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
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I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper.
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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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