“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”

— Morris West

Source: The Clowns of God (1981), Ch. II (ellipses in original) 
This statement begins with a quotation from Horace, Odes, Book I, Ode ix, line 13.
Context: "Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

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