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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
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Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
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Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.
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Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.
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Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.
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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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Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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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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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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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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It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
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I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.
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The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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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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I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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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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So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
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Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth.
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Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being cool. Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be cool. Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?
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