| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 27823 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), U.S. author. quoted in Papa Hemingway, pt. 1, ch. 3, A.E. Hotchner (1966).
The words “a moveable feast” were used on Hotchner’s recommendation as the title for Hemingway’s posthumously published Paris memoirs. The above paragraph appeared as the book’s epigraph. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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