Let the Brothels of Paris, st. 2 
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
                                    
“Don't be afraid to fart while peeing, every rainstorm needs a bit of thunder.”
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“If we have the smegging compass, Jeremy, you don't need to look at the farting sun.”
"Let's Play Minecraft: Ep. 236 - Voyage of the Dumb Treaders" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1MLhR5OzWw. youtube.com. December 2, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
                                        
                                        Social Aims 
Sometimes condensed to "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." 
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books,  Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
                                    
“If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.”
“I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.”
                                        
                                        Interview by William Lombardy, 1972  http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Bobby_Fischer_Articles7.html 
1970s
                                    
                                
                                    “The brief silence that follows is as tender as a
rainstorm of daisies.”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                            
Source: La Mécanique du cœur
                                        
                                        “A Few Notes on the Culture” (p. 169) 
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)
                                    
“Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.”