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"Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive."
"On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!"
"I've always been fascinated by weather."
"That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather."
"When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that."
"There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average."
"One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance."
"What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is."
"The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had."
"Lena Smoothed her hair. "Crazy weather you have down here."
"She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence."
"I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather."
"It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather."
"Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers."
"Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . . everything?"
"I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night."
"For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me."
"The weather still continues charming."
"The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun."
"When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather."
