"I find that other countries have this or……" — Frances Mayes
"I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there."
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38 Quotes by Frances Mayes
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Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
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The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.
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Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter…
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Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two…
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May summer last a hundred years.
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Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.
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I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
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It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when…
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Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
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Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with…
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Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream,…
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Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I…
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