"One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the……" — Frances Mayes
"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 the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?"
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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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