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• In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Different, Kind

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• I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Couple, Thinking

  Interview with The Onion A.V. Club, www.avclub.com. May 29, 2002.

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Book, Reading

  Esquire, Dec. 1934

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• Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Real, Dark

  "Handle with Care" (1936)

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• A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface of an ocean. What is the difference between the information carried in the words of a novel and the information carried on the waves of the sea? Listen, and the waves will speak, and someday, I tell you, you will write your thoughts on the surface of the sea.

  Douglas Preston

  Ocean, Writing, Sea

  Douglas Preston (2008). “Blasphemy: A Novel”, p.519, Macmillan

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• Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Leaving

  "Dance Dance Dance". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2011.

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• They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Sleep, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.279, Penguin

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• It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Years, Evil, World

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.861, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Air, Bullshit, Records

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Diary”, p.140, Random House

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• Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

  E. B. White

  Change, Dark, Clouds

  Letter to M. Nadeau, March 30, 1973.

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• I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

  Dodie Smith

  Morning, Spring, Kind

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.83, St. Martin's Press

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• Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

  John Keats

  Food, Book, Wine

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• Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Giving, Care

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.36, Everyman's Library

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• It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me.

  John Fante

  Home, Winter, Night

  John Fante (2013). “1933 Was A Bad Year”, p.1, Canongate Books

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• When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

  Tom Waits

  Rain, Whiskey, Rough

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• The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.

  Ann Brashares

  Sunshine, Air, Feelings

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• The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Feet, Wrinkles, Dust

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• He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.

  Gregory Maguire

  Cold

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• As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made truth of what appeared to be. The days that passed, in becoming weeks, still did not disturb the surface an assumption had created. The weather of a beautiful summer continued with neither sign nor hint that credence had been misplaced. The single sandal found among the rocks became a sodden image of death; and as the keening on the pier at Kilauran traditionally marked distres brought by the sea, so did silence at Lahardane.

  William Trevor

  Beautiful, Summer, Rocks

  William Trevor (2011). “The Story of Lucy Gault”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

  O. Henry

  Sunshine, Blood, Tissues

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.675, ShandonPress

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• But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Two, Sorrow, Together

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.857, Xist Publishing

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• There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Cutting, Men

  Margaret Atwood, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott (1998). “Two Solicitudes: Conversations”, McClelland & Stewart

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• The weather still continues charming.

  Oscar Wilde

  Charming, Stills

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.90

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• When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Color, Missing

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Fall, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.3

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