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.
Interpretation
Living in Paris enriches your life forever, no matter where you go afterward.
This quote by Ernest Hemingway conveys the idea that the experiences and memories gained from living in Paris during one's youth are profoundly impactful and enduring. The phrase 'moveable feast' suggests that the vibrancy and spirit of Paris travel with you, shaping your identity and enriching your life wherever you may roam.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of travel for personal growth.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.
Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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