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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Discovering
Stay
Alive
Moving
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Art

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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.
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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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Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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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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What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?
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I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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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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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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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 know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.
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