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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Calvin:It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means? Television: ...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
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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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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?
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If you can't win by reason, go for volume.
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I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper.
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I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
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I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!
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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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I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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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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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
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I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
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