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Walk into a painting

This is where I walk in the evenings. It’s still warm. Michelangelo’s house is in the distance. It looks like a painting, doesn’t it?

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GrahamSeptember 17, 2018
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"What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago."

- Erica Jong, American novelist.

 

"Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It's alluring, but complicated. It's the kind of place that can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred meters, or in the course of ten minutes. Italy is the only workshop in the world that can turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis.” - Beppe Severgnini, Italian author of La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind.

'" I think people in Italy live their lives better than what we do. It's an older country and they have learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it."

- George Clooney

“You may have the universe if I can have Italy.”

- Verdi

“Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.” – Bertrand Russell.

“Even now I miss Italy dearly, I dream about it every night.” – Eila Hiltunen

“The Creator made Italy by designs from Michelangelo.” – Mark Twain

“One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.” – from the book “Italy Luxury: Family Hotels & Resorts” by Debra Levinson

“When life gives you twists and turns, chique yourself up in Italy!” – Barbara Conelli

“Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.” – Anna Akhmatova

“I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.” – Elton John

"Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!" - John Lydon, English lead singer of The Sex Pistols.

"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy." - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
 

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