“Nothing that year was sweeter than buying villagers we liked a pastis with money we earned working their land. If you can work in Provence, even for a single day, you should do it.”
Richard Goodman
more infosource: “Surrendering to Provence,” in A New York Memoir (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010), 46.
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category: France, Provence, sweet, travel, work
medium: memoir
“Only in this sun-steeped country can a heavy table, a wicker chair, an earthenware jar crowned with flowers, and a dish whose thick enameling has run over the edge, make a complete furnishing.”
Colette
more infosource: Break of Day (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001), new introduction by Judith Thurman, 62.
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category: France, furnishing, furniture, home, object, Provence
medium: fiction
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