Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

—Bill Watterson

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William Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist who authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. The strip was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson concluded Calvin and Hobbes with a short statement to newspaper readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in...

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If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

—Bill Watterson

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Reality continues to ruin my life.

—Bill Watterson

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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

—Bill Watterson

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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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Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

—Benjamin Disraeli

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on earth,… have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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He'd mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world that it took an e-mail to remind him what it was like to have a real conversation.

—Jennifer E. Smith in This is What Happy Looks Like

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

—Stephen Levine

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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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