"Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you……" — Frances Mayes
"Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct."
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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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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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There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are…
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