Moveable Feast Quotes

• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Travel, Men

  A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

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• As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Strong, Food, Wine

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Romantic, Stars

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Bad Ass, Typewriters

  "Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Photos from Hemingway's Childhood" by James Joiner, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Inspiring, Travel

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Simple, Breathing, Cities

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Freedom, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Soil, Grades

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spring, Rain, Fall

  Ernest Hemingway, Robert E. Gajdusek (1978). “Hemingway's Paris”, Scribner Book Company

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• All things truly wicked start from innocence.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Wicked, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spring, People, Limits

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Trying, Wonderful

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Loneliness, Ends, Felt

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Powerful, Spring, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Filled Up, Emptiness, Good And Bad

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Wine, Vineyards

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Light, Years, Wind

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3236, Simon and Schuster

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• When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spring, Problem, April And Spring

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Simple, Cities, Paris

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Food, Wine, Cooking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Pencils

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Paris

  Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Worry, Written

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Paris, Pencils

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Goes On, Sentences

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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