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The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Washington
District of Columbia
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It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!
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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.
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S...For Stupendous! T...For Tiger, ferocity of! U...For Underwear, Red! P...For Power, Incredible! E...For excellent physique! N...For...Um...Something..Hm, well, I'll come back to that... D...For Determination! U...For...Wait, How do you spell this? Is it I??
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
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Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
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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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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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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore 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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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.
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I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
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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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I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!
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I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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