Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

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

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

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.