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title: "2 Epiphany Quotes By Frances Mayes"
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> [One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/one-of-those-flash-epiphanies-of-travel-the-realization-that-worlds/)

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

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> [One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. I could live in this town, so how is it that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-mayes/one-of-those-flash-epiphanies-of-travel-the-realization-that-worlds-2/)

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

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## 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/)

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