Moveable Feast Quotes

Moveable Feast Quote of the day

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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