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 r… - Bill Watterson

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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.

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About Bill Watterson

William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5 1958) is the author of the comic-strip Calvin and Hobbes.

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Birth Name: William Boyd Watterson II
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