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What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Verbing weirds language.
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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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Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, comics are widely accepted and taken seriously. On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.
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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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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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If you don't get a goodnight kiss, you get Kafka dreams.
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HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
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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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Mom’s not feeling well. So I’m making her a get well card.” “That’s thoughtful of you.” See, on the front it says, ‘Get Well Soon’ … and on the inside it says,’Because my bed isn’t made, my clothes need to be put away and I’m hungry. Love Calvin.’ Want to sign it?” “Sure, I’m hungry too
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Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes
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I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
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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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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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It's always better to leave the party early.
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I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.
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