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I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?


Bill Watterson

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BILL WATTERSON Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if...
BILL WATTERSON There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is.
BILL WATTERSON Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to ...
BILL WATTERSON If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 minutes, than it's probably not worth...
BILL WATTERSON You can lead people to the truth, but you can't make them understand it.
BILL WATTERSON How come we play war and not peace?"
"Too few role models.
BILL WATTERSON Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of cons...
BILL WATTERSON Now what state do you live in?'
'Denial.
BILL WATTERSON Mothers are the necessity of invention.
BILL WATTERSON I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas...
BILL WATTERSON I was not prepared for the resulting attention. Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and th...
BILL WATTERSON I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
BILL WATTERSON At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find the inner mo...
BILL WATTERSON Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these ...
BILL WATTERSON Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better t...
BILL WATTERSON By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an i...
BILL WATTERSON A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be...
BILL WATTERSON Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster th...
BILL WATTERSON It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON [Calvin: A 6-year-old boy who thinks like a grown-up and fantasizes like a child.] Calvin is very fr...
BILL WATTERSON