Bill Watterson
Cartoonist
1958-07-05
Bill Watterson is an American cartoonist best known for creating the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. His work is noted for its visual craft and philosophical humor.
Books by Bill Watterson
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Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
a Calvin and Hobbes collection
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Quotes by Bill Watterson
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. 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. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them.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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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win!Conversations aren't contests!Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead.
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I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
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How come we play war and not peace?Too few role models.
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin
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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
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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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You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!
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I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.
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CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.
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That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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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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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to... Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play! Calvin: Shhhh! Shhhh! You'll spoil the whole thing! I was going to trick Susie into catching... HEY! OW! LET GO! Susie: [Hanging up the phone] Any chance of getting transferred, Dad?
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Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?
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