Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.


Bill Watterson

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Mean words

Once upon a time,
I loved you
But I will never
I swear.
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My life needs a rewind/erase button.
BILL WATTERSON
To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.
BILL WATTERSON
Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, bra...
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I hate to subject it to too much analysis, but one thing I have fun with is the rarity of things bei...
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Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet ...
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The timber wolves will be our friends.We'll stay up late and howl,At the moon, till nighttime ends,B...
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Whenever I hear about people trying to rediscover the "child within," I want to scream.
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I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by H...
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Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.
BILL WATTERSON
If you don't have anything to say just keep quiet! Provoking a reaction isn't the same as saying som...
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The kind of girl I was attracted to in school and eventually married.
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. . . it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well t...
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of...
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A REAL job is a job you hate.
BILL WATTERSON
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
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...
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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.
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Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of cons...
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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...
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I was not prepared for the resulting attention. Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and th...
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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...
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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
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster th...
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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.
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