“A Moveable Feast Quotes”
Some of the best book quotes from A Moveable Feast
“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.”
“She did not like to hear really bad nor tragic things, but no one does, and having seen them I did not care to talk about them unless she wanted to know how the world was going. She wanted to know the gay part of how the world was going; never the real, never the bad.”
“It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I’d had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
“The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“His talent was as natural as the pattern … made by … dust on a butterfly’s wings.”
″‘We’re always lucky,’ I said, and like a fool I did not knock on wood.”
“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war.”
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