"In America, people are just so straightforward when……" — Frances Mayes

"In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things."

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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.
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
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…

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And… — Billie Joe Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and… — Bashar al-Assad
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon

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