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Frances Mayes
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“The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out to cool.”
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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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“... 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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“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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“Memory is, of course, a trickster.”
Frances Mayes, U.S. educator, writer
(1940)