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Author - Frances Mayes
Quotes by : Frances Mayes
writing
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. ....
inspiration
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
travel writing
It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of....
travel
It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive?
georgia
Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going....
language
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness....
memory
Memory is capricious. I can look back and see decadence, old bigots, the constant racial slurs, the bores,....
home
At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace....
childhood trauma
First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face,....
choice
Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined....
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