Quotes from book
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast is a memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling young expat journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book, first published in 1964, describes the author's apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife, Hadley Richardson.
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”
Ch 17; Variant: All things truly wicked start from innocence.
As quoted by R Z Sheppard in review of The Garden of Eden (1986) TIME (26 May 1986)
A Moveable Feast (1964)
Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 12
Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 8
Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 12
Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 1
“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings.”
An assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ch. 17
A Moveable Feast (1964)
Context: 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.
