A popular internet misattribution.[citation needed] A number of variants of the "rain on your parade" theme appear, with different sources
Misattributed
“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
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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009Related quotes
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“Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.”
"What it Means to be a Human Being" Speech (2001)