“I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.”
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
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Bill Watterson165
American comic artist 1958Related quotes
“I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) American singer and songwriter
"Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
Jacob Aagaard (1973) Danish-born Scottish chess grandmaster
"Are chess players intelligent?" Quality Chess Blog (6 October 2010) http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/blog/?p=630
Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander
Variant: You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
Source: Gregor the Overlander
Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker
The Alex Jones Show, 11 August 2016 https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/11/alex-jones-it-surreal-talk-about-issues-here-air-and-then-word-word-hear-trump-say-it-two-days-later/212339. <br class="br">2016
“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Response, after being asked why he went ahead and performed in the concert "Smile Jamaica", two days after he, his wife and manager were wounded inside his home after an assault by unknown gunmen, thought to be politically motivated (5 December 1976), as quoted in Bob Marley The Father of Music (2010) by Jean-Pierre Hombasch, p. 5
Variant: The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?
“Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year”
Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) English-American novelist and essayist
because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing
"Dirty Business" (1973), p. 83
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
