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A Moveable Feast
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A Moveable Feast (1964) (edit title/settings)

by Ernest Hemingway (Author) (edit contributors)

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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first... read more

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Hemingway finds himself married, in Paris. He writes in cafés, meets Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other writers. He meets artists of all types—painters, poets, etc.—and tries to bail T.S. Eliot out of a bank. Eventually he falls out with Gertrude Stein, and witnesses Fitzgerald's... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Hemingway finds himself married, in Paris. He writes in cafés, meets Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other writers. He meets artists of all types—painters, poets, etc.—and tries to bail T.S. Eliot out of a bank. Eventually he falls out with Gertrude Stein, and witnesses Fitzgerald's descent. He falls in love with a woman, and then again with his wife. He has a son. He leaves Paris.

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  • “Some places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.”
  • “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.”
  • “This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood.”
  • “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 a higher grade of manure.”
  • “The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. (Beginning of chapter 6, "A False Spring," page 49)”
  • “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. (pg 62)”
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  • I had learned already 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • When I stopped working on the races I was glad but it left an emptiness. 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.
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  • 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.
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  • I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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This book mainly takes place in Paris, France with a couple detours to other parts of Europe.
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THEN there was the bad weather.

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  1. Ernest Hemingway (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1964
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Page Count: 211

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Reading Level: Young Adults

Not appropriate for children. Themes of sex and death.

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