Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson

"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity."
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"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity."
Bill Watterson
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"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."
Bill Watterson
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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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"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book."
Bill Watterson The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
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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."
Bill Watterson Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
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"I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know."
Bill Watterson The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
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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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"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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"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present."
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"Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running."
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"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
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"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
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"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."
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"I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple."
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"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
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"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
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"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."
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"Genius is never understood in its own time."
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"It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool."
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