# A Moveable Feast - Author: [Ernest Hemingway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway.md) - Quotes: 11 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast ## Quotes > All things truly wicked start from an innocence. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/all-things-truly.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/as-i-ate.md) > Then I started to think in Lipp's about when I had first been able to write a story about losing everything. It was up in Cortina d'Ampezzo when I had come back to join Hadley there after the spring skiing which I had to interrupt to go on assignment to Rhineland and the Ruhr. It was a very simple story called "Out of Season" and I had omitted the real end of it which was that the old man hanged himself. 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/then-i-started.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/they-say-the.md) > You got very hungry when you did not eat enough in Paris because all the bakery shops had such good things in windows and people ate outside at tables on the sidewalk so that you saw and smelled the food. When you were skipping meals at a time when you had given up journalism and were writing nothing that anyone in America would buy, explaining at home that you were lunching out with someone, the best place to do it was the Luxembourg gardens... 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. I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/you-got-very.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/i-do-not.md) > His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/his-talent-was.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/the-only-thing.md) > 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." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/i-would-stand.md) > Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/some-people-show.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/a-moveable-feast/if-you-are.md)