"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, the history. Just everything to me comes together there."

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Source : "'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2010.

Frances Mayes

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Together Quotes

“If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.”
“My prayer for the new year is that I may have the courage and the stamina to let Life happen to me, to accept its joys and successes, and to take in stride the learning that stretches us and the growing pains. Perhaps, to put it simply, my wish for the New Year is: may we love more, live more, laugh more. And so may you!”

Source : Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”
“Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.”
“When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
“If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it.”

Source : Source: povmagazine.com
“The fault is in the system and not in the men.”
“I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.”

Source : "Anita Ekberg, actress who rose to fame in Fellini films, dies", www.sfgate.com. January 11, 2015.
“A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.”

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