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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

Bill Watterson

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

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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 still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.
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We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
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Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.
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I'd hate to have a kid like me.
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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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Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
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I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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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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Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
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Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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