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The Eerie Awareness of Italian Trees
Patti
There's something strange about these trees. It's like they know.
Frances
And they know that we know that they know.
Patti
They're creepy. Creepy Italian trees. Of course, the baby's going to like them cause it's going to be a creepy Italian baby who goes around saying things like Ciao mama and doing that weird backward hand wave thing. Life is strange.
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Inner Voice on a Tuscan Journey
Patti
Think of your inner voice.
Frances
Inner voice... "What the fuck am I doing on a gay tour of Tuscany?
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Questioning the Nature of True Love
Frances
What if this is it? The real thing?
Placido
What you speak of is only in ].
[[fairy tales]
Frances
No, it's not!
Placido
And how do you know? From personal experience?
Frances
No. I looked, and I didn't find it. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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Regrets Hinder Present Joy and Growth
Katherine
Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
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Cultural Surprises in Unexpected Places
Frances
The fact that I'm trying to speak Polish in Italy is one of the many surprises around here.
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The Meaning of Home and Possibility
Frances
What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It's such a surprise.
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Reflections on Loneliness and Connection
Frances
Every day, I watch for the old man with the flowers, and I wonder, was he born here? Did he love someone here? Did he lose someone here? He doesn't seem as curious about me, but that's all right. These days, I'm something of a loner myself.
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A Plea for Joy and Commitment
Martini
Signora, please stop being so sad. If you continue like this, I will be forced to make love to you. And I've never been unfaithful to my wife.
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Embracing Risk in Life Decisions
Katherine
It's a nice little villa. Rather run down, but redeemable... Are you going to buy it?
Frances
The way my life is currently going, that would be a terrible idea.
Katherine
Mm, terrible idea... Don't you just love those?
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Struggling to Find Breath After Heartbreak
Patti
Jesus, Frances, how do you do it — how do you ever breathe again?
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Celebrating Community at Cortona's Market Day
Frances
It's market day in Cortona — the piazza is an on-going party — and everyone is invited.
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Embracing Opportunities in Life
Taglines
Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.
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The Complexity of Love and Human Behavior
Frances
What is it about love that makes us so stupid?
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Unexpected Ownership of a Villa
Frances
So I was now the owner of a villa whose lands it would take two oxen two days to plow. Owning neither an ox nor a plow, I'd have to take their word for that.
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Embracing Self-Confidence and Joy
Frances
I still got it! I still got it! I still got it! — Thank God!
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Facing Life's Crossroads with Courage
Patti
You know when you come across one of those empty shell people, and you think "What the hell happened to you?" Well there came a time in each one of those lives where they are standing at a crossroads... someplace where they had to decide whether to turn left or right. This is no time to be a chicken-shit, Frances.
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Frances's Offer on the House
Frances
I'd like to make an offer on the house. This is what I can pay, minus the work on the place, buckets, nails ... chocolate, and a rental car to drive off a cliff when this all turns out to have been a terrible mistake.
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The Harsh Truths of Divorce and Love
Frances
Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly. You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn't know. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course, but I was too scared to see the truth. Then fear just makes you so stupid.
Martini
No, it's not stupid, Signora Mayes. L'amore e cieco.
Frances
Oh, love is blind. Yeah, we have that saying too.
Martini
Everybody has that saying because it's true everywhere.
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The Importance of Childish Innocence
Katherine
No matter what happens, always keep your childish innocence. It's the most important thing.
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Realizing a Dream Through Conversation
Frances
What are you thinking?
Martini
What do I think?
Frances
Tell me.
Martini
I think you got your wish.
Frances
My wish?
Martini
On that day we looked for the snake, you said there wanted there to be a wedding here. And you said... you wanted there to be a family here.
Frances
You're right... I got my wish. I got everything I asked for.
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Traffic Lights and Their Meaning in Italy
Frances
Do traffic lights mean anythng around here?
Marcello
Yeah, sure. Green light — avanti, avanti. Yellow light — decoration.
Frances
What about red light?
Marcello
Just a suggestion.
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The Meaning of Giving Birth to Light
Frances
In Italian, the literal translation of "to give birth" — "dare alla luce" — is: "to give to the light".
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The Peculiarity of Life
Patti
Life is strange.
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Building for the Future: The Semmering Alps
Frances
Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come.
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Unexpected Journeys and New Beginnings
Taglines
The Only Thing More Surprising Than The Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her
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