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Book: A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
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  1. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, "go.
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  2. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.
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  3. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
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  4. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    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...
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  5. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    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.
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  6. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people's travel clothes...
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  7. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    Always, I liked the infinitive 'to go.' Let's go, let's go. let's really go. 'Andare' was the first verb I learned to conjugate in Italian. 'Andiamo,' let's go, teh sound comes out at a gallop.
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  8. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    If I lived here,...I have a feeling this place would take me.
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  9. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches.
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  10. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
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  11. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    When you travel you become invisible if you want. I do want. I like to be the observer. What makes these people who they are Could I feel at home here No one expects you to have the stack of papers back by Tuesday or to check messages or to fertilize the geraniums or to sit full of dread in the waiting room at the protologist's office. When travelling you have the delectable possibility of not understanding a word of what is said to you. Language becomes simply a musical background for watching bicycles zoom along a canal calling for nothing from you. Even better if you speak the language you catch nuances and make more contact with people. Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full of choice free to visit the stately pleasure domes make love in the morning sketch a bell tower read a history of Byzantium stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna dei fusi. You open as in childhood and – for a time – receive this world. There's the visceral aspect too – the huntress who is free. Free to go Free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.
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  12. Frances Mayes _ A Year in the World: Journeys

    There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.
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