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A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
"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." Ernest Hemingway, to a friend, 1950
Hemingway wrote this book in 1960, "fiction" based on his life in the 1920's in Paris with his first wife, Hadley. I enjoyed the vignettes, somewhat related, sometimes gossipy, many of the same tales included in Hadley's story, The Paris Wife. Hemingway treated Hadley with great affection, many years after their divorce. And, though, he references Pauline, Hemingway never names her.
"If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact." (Preface)
"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest." (49)
"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." (104)
"During our last year in the mountains new people came deep into our lives and nothing was ever the same again." (207)
Hemingway wrote this book in 1960, "fiction" based on his life in the 1920's in Paris with his first wife, Hadley. I enjoyed the vignettes, somewhat related, sometimes gossipy, many of the same tales included in Hadley's story, The Paris Wife. Hemingway treated Hadley with great affection, many years after their divorce. And, though, he references Pauline, Hemingway never names her.
"If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact." (Preface)
"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest." (49)
"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." (104)
"During our last year in the mountains new people came deep into our lives and nothing was ever the same again." (207)