Rain quotes
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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose."
"I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?"
"I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears."
"I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats."
"The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar."
"This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees."
"The rain, it raineth every day."
"Much rain wears the marble."
"New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades."
"Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season."
"My shoes are clean from walking in the rain."
"The taste of rain -- Why kneel?"
"The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change."
"There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle."
"Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me."
"It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression ."
"This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again."
"I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture."
"Every drop of rain hits its appointed target."
"Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs."
