Moveable Feast Quotes:

I am now at the age where I can withdraw a 25 per cent tax-free lump sum. I do not put in a set amount because my earnings are a moveable feast.

- Anthea Turner

source: Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

topic: Age, Earning, Moveable Feast, Lumps

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

topic: Spring, Problem, Moveable Feast, Spring Flowers, Spring Love

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

topic: Loneliness, Moveable Feast, Ends

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

topic: Life, Travel, Men, Moveable Feast, City Lights

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

topic: Strong, Food, Wine, Moveable Feast, Metallic

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

topic: Love, Romantic, Stars, Moveable Feast

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

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Writing, Bad Ass, Typewriters, Inspiration To Write, Starting To Write

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Love, Travel, Journey, Moveable Feast, Lovers Meeting

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

topic: Simple, Breathing, Cities, Moveable Feast, France Paris

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

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Truth, Freedom, Writing, Moveable Feast, Writing Advice

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

topic: Life, Soil, Grades, Moveable Feast

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

topic: Spring, Rain, Fall, Moveable Feast, Fall Season

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Wicked, Literature, Innocence, Moveable Feast, Loss Of Innocence

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

topic: Spring, People, Limits, Spring Day, Spring Flowers

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

topic: Writing, Trying, Wonderful, Moveable Feast

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

topic: Powerful, Spring, Writing, Moveable Feast, Inspiring Writing

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

topic: Emptiness, Good And Bad, Filled, Moveable Feast, Filled Up

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

topic: Drinking, Wine, Eating, Vineyards, Moveable Feast

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

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

topic: Food, Wine, Cooking, Moveable Feast, Fine Wine

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Notebook, Paris, Waiting, Moveable Feast

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

topic: Writing, Thinking, Paris, Moveable Feast

But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. 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.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

topic: Writing, Thinking, Paris, Moveable Feast

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

- Andrew O'Hagan

source: "Why public spaces must allow private thoughts" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

topic: Art, Museums, Breathing, Moveable Feast