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The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out to cool.
Frances Mayes
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Frances Mayes
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 4
Essayist
Novelist
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Fitzgerald
Georgia
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Honey
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.
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As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.
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Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere I would be different.
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Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.
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Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.
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I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.
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There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
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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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The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.
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Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different I am foreign.
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The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
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Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.
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Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
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I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.
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