"The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm."
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"It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation."
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"Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm."
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"Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul."
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"She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."
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"I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses."
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"A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm."
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"The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl."
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"This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends."
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"If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself."
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"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
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"You learn to know a pilot in a storm."
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"Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms."
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"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say."
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"It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur."
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"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."
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"Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor."
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"Issue the orders, sir, and I will storm hell!"
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"The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms."
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"A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did."
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