Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.
Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one. - Frances Mayes
Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.
- Frances Mayes
Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a myster… - Frances Mayes
Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a myster…
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 … - 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 …
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words? - Frances Mayes
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? - Frances Mayes
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. - Frances Mayes
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. - Frances Mayes
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk. - Frances Mayes
The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.
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,… - Frances Mayes
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,…
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