If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums … - Bill Watterson

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The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

Bill Watterson

If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.

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