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Frances Mayes Quote: “It’s kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.”

51. “It’s kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.”

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Frances Mayes Quote: “Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.”

52. “Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat.”

53. “We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat.”

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Frances Mayes Quote: “Stone houses, terrace walls, city walls, streets. Plant any rose and you hit four or five big ones. All the Etruscan sarcophagi with likenesses of the dead carved on top in realistic, living poses must have come out of the most natural transference into death they could imagine. After lifetimes of dealing with stone, why not, in death, turn into it?”

54. “Stone houses, terrace walls, city walls, streets. Plant any rose and you hit four or five big ones. All the Etruscan sarcophagi with likenesses of the dead carved on top in realistic, living poses must have come out of the most natural transference into death they could imagine. After lifetimes of dealing with stone, why not, in death, turn into it?”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “Although he’s slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle.”

55. “Although he’s slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O’Connor, James Agee, and – do we dare breathe the name – William Faulkner.”

56. “When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O’Connor, James Agee, and – do we dare breathe the name – William Faulkner.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “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?”

57. “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?”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches.”

58. “There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “The words ‘forse che si,’ ‘forse che no’, ‘perhaps yes,’ ‘perhaps no,’ repeat along all paths.”

59. “The words ‘forse che si,’ ‘forse che no’, ‘perhaps yes,’ ‘perhaps no,’ repeat along all paths.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “I’m reading more than ever. I’ve started on the left wall of the Carnegie Library and plan to read my way around the room.”

60. “I’m reading more than ever. I’ve started on the left wall of the Carnegie Library and plan to read my way around the room.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression “a place in the sun” first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.”

61. “Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression “a place in the sun” first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “Italy’s siren call lures us more and more.”

62. “Italy’s siren call lures us more and more.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore.”

63. “Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “The bricked-up fourteenth-century “doors of the dead” are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims – bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.”

64. “The bricked-up fourteenth-century “doors of the dead” are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims – bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “We feel prepared to face the reality of restoration. We walk into town for coffee and telephone Piero Rizzatti, the geometra. The translations “draftsman” or “surveyor” don’t quite explain what a geometra is, a professional without an equivalent in the United States – a liaison among owner, builders, and town planning officials. Ian has assured us that he is the best in the area, meaning also that he has the best connections and can get the permits quickly.”

65. “We feel prepared to face the reality of restoration. We walk into town for coffee and telephone Piero Rizzatti, the geometra. The translations “draftsman” or “surveyor” don’t quite explain what a geometra is, a professional without an equivalent in the United States – a liaison among owner, builders, and town planning officials. Ian has assured us that he is the best in the area, meaning also that he has the best connections and can get the permits quickly.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.”

66. “After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “He’s already tan, and leaning on the rail in his yellow linen shirt, with the pure glory of Venice racing behind him, I think he looks like someone I’d like to run off with, if I already hadn’t.”

67. “He’s already tan, and leaning on the rail in his yellow linen shirt, with the pure glory of Venice racing behind him, I think he looks like someone I’d like to run off with, if I already hadn’t.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.”

68. “I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “When books go out into the world, they take on a life. Sometimes that life is a quiet and dusty one, waiting on the nether regions of library stacks. I have books of poetry like that. With others, the book’s life is one of surprise because the book keeps on making its way, on it’s own, into intriguing and larger spaces.”

69. “When books go out into the world, they take on a life. Sometimes that life is a quiet and dusty one, waiting on the nether regions of library stacks. I have books of poetry like that. With others, the book’s life is one of surprise because the book keeps on making its way, on it’s own, into intriguing and larger spaces.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “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 and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.”

70. “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 and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.”

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Frances Mayes Quote: “He said he couldn’t understand a world ’shameless and cruel enough to divide its people by color when color is in fact the sign of God’s artistic genius.”

71. “He said he couldn’t understand a world ’shameless and cruel enough to divide its people by color when color is in fact the sign of God’s artistic genius.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people’s travel clothes...”

72. “Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people’s travel clothes...”

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Frances Mayes Quote: “Oh, come on, he was twenty-six. And he had poetry on his lips.”

73. “Oh, come on, he was twenty-six. And he had poetry on his lips.”

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Frances Mayes Quote: “They all agree, Italy is not what it used to be. What is? All my adult life I’ve heard how Silicon Valley used to be all orchards, how Atlanta used to be genteel, how publishing used to be run by gentlemen, how houses used to cost what a car costs now. All true, but what can you do but live now?”

74. “They all agree, Italy is not what it used to be. What is? All my adult life I’ve heard how Silicon Valley used to be all orchards, how Atlanta used to be genteel, how publishing used to be run by gentlemen, how houses used to cost what a car costs now. All true, but what can you do but live now?”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be given to the reader through factual description. And maybe not at all. You have to find your own secret images. The slow fall of a coin into the gorge with the sun catching the copper only for a moment, and the fall into nothing says more about a sense of place than three pages of restaurant and hotel descriptions...”

75. “But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be given to the reader through factual description. And maybe not at all. You have to find your own secret images. The slow fall of a coin into the gorge with the sun catching the copper only for a moment, and the fall into nothing says more about a sense of place than three pages of restaurant and hotel descriptions...”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “Vicki shines with intelligence as brightly as with beauty, a clear open face, black eyes, and a smile that makes you see what she looked like as a nine-year-old.”

76. “Vicki shines with intelligence as brightly as with beauty, a clear open face, black eyes, and a smile that makes you see what she looked like as a nine-year-old.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “Martin Buber said, ‘All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.”

77. “Martin Buber said, ‘All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “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 enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.”

78. “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 enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “As they clean the walls with wet cloths and sponges, they uncover the earlier paints, most prevalent a stark blue that must have been inspired by Mary’s blue robes. Renaissance painters could get that rare color only from ground lapis lazuli brought from quarries in what is now Afghanistan.”

79. “As they clean the walls with wet cloths and sponges, they uncover the earlier paints, most prevalent a stark blue that must have been inspired by Mary’s blue robes. Renaissance painters could get that rare color only from ground lapis lazuli brought from quarries in what is now Afghanistan.”

— Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes Quote: “What if you did not feel uncertainty, the white writing says. Are you exempt from doubt? Why not rename it excitement?”

80. “What if you did not feel uncertainty, the white writing says. Are you exempt from doubt? Why not rename it excitement?”

— Frances Mayes

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