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