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Frances Mayes - Under the Tuscan Sun (1996)

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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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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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Southerners have a gene, as yet undetected in the DNA spirals, that causes them to believe that place is fate. 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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A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

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Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

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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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The house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams.

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Born: April 4, 1940 (age 85)
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