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

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.
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I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
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Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.
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A REAL job is a job you hate.
Bill Watterson
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
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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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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes
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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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It's always better to leave the party early.
Bill Watterson