1,262 Quotes About Rain

  • Author Italo Calvino
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    I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

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  • Author John Cheever
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    The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

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  • Author Joseph Campbell
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    When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

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  • Author Laurel Clark
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    If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

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  • Author Mary Boykin Chesnut
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    Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

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  • Author Michael Cunningham
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    Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

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