
“The word for smoke should look like smoke -- the word for rain should look like rain…”
One of the calligraphers
The Pillow Book
opening of side 2)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
“The word for smoke should look like smoke -- the word for rain should look like rain…”
One of the calligraphers
The Pillow Book
“Don't take a leak on my shoes and tell me it's raining.”
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Date unidentified
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 1
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World