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title: "2 Deck Quotes By Frances Mayes"
description: "2 Deck quotes by Frances Mayes. Plus more from Frances Mayes and more Deck sayings from other authors."
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> [All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/all-afternoon-in-the-deck-chair-i-try-to-describe-to-my-notebook-the/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e99/frances-mayes-7779_afternoon_all-afternoon-in-the-deck-chair-i-try-to_205736.png)

> [Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/like-fanning-through-a-deck-of-cards-my-mind-flashes-on-the-thousand/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d36/frances-mayes-7779_arbitrary_like-fanning-through-a-deck-of-cards-my_898171.png)

## Other authors on Deck

## More by Frances Mayes

> [If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/if-you-ve-got-a-plot-the-size-of-a-car-or-a-tiny-yard-in-italy-you-re/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [“Always, I liked the infinitive 'to go.' Let's go, let's go. let's really go. 'Andare' was the first verb I learned to conjugate in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/always-i-liked-the-infinitive-to-go-let-s-go-let-s-go-let-s-really-go/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [ “\[As Garibaldi says,\] 'Sleep, my dear Chevalley, sleep, that is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them...” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/as-garibaldi-says-sleep-my-dear-chevalley-sleep-that-is-what/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/all-afternoon-in-the-deck-chair-i-try-to-describe-to-my-notebook-the/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/life-offers-you-a-thousand-chances-all-you-have-to-do-is-take-one/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/the-only-thing-more-surprising-than-the-chance-she-s-taking-is-where/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/the-italians-have-their-priorities-right-they-re-driven-they-do-their/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/anytime-the-perfume-of-orange-and-lemon-groves-wafts-in-the-window/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/it-s-daunting-to-find-the-language-so-foreign-so-distant-but-also-so/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [“There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/there-are-reasons-we-congregate-in-these-hot-spots-to-worship-beauty/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [“And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/and-my-mother-whose-radius-of-travel-was-short-tied-the-letters-with/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/i-got-the-idea-that-to-write-books-would-be-the-best-way-to-spend-a/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [ “\[As Chevalley says,\] 'Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect...” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/as-chevalley-says-sicilians-never-want-to-improve-for-the-simple/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/in-america-people-are-just-so-straightforward-when-they-dislike-things/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

> [“At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/at-bramasole-the-first-secret-spot-that-draws-me-outside-is-a-stump/)

[Frances Mayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-mayes/)

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