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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?”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate. ”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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