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Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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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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My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.
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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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It's always better to leave the party early.
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Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
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HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
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Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.
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For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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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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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin
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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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So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
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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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When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.
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I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.
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Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
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Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.
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