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“Old Cairo is itself a story-book and a dream--labyrinths of narrow alleys redolent of aromatic secrets;” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Many things combine to show that Midaq Alley is one of the gems of times gone by and that it once shone forth like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.” — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“It was a crypt where music played to masses of the dead, and McJagger was their desolate pharaoh, a walking mummified king. I remembered… — Red Tash Copy Share Image
“Today there is a place called Egypt, but the Egyptian people are not masters there; long since they have been broken by conquest, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The government must rethink its strategy toward the Bedouin, or else those in the area who are armed will turn it into the war… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of… — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
“Naoum, Sarkis, transporter of goods, humanitarian and master smuggler, a.k.a. the “Hero of ’14” — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
“There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.” — McKay Copy Share Image
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“Always, I liked the infinitive 'to go.' Let's go, let's go. let's really go. 'Andare' was the first verb I learned to conjugate in… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“[As Garibaldi says,] 'Sleep, my dear Chevalley, sleep, that is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them...” — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her! — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.” — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
