10 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.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
There you could always go into the Luxembourg museum and all the paintings were heightened and clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow-hungry.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
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 you know."
A Moveable Feast (1964)
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.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man.... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
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.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
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.
A Moveable Feast (1964)