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==Title== {{Quote box |quote = 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 movable feast. - Ernest Hemingway, ''to a friend'', 1950 |source = epigraph on title page of ''A Moveable Feast'', Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1964, p. v. |width = 25% |align= left |bgcolor= #DCDCDC }} The title, ''A Moveable Feast'' (a play on words for the term used for a [[moveable feast|holy day for which the date is not fixed]]), was suggested by Hemingway's friend and biographer A. E. Hotchner, who remembered Hemingway using the term in 1950.<ref name=PapaHem/> Hotchner's recollection of Hemingway's words became the source of the epigraph on the title page for the 1964 edition.<ref name=PapaHem>{{cite book|author=Hotchner, A.E.|title=Papa Hemingway|location= New York|publisher= Random House|date= 1966|page=57}}</ref> The phrase appears in a 1946 English translation of ''[[The Stranger (Camus novel)|The Stranger]]'' by [[Albert Camus]]: "Masson remarked that weβd had a very early lunch, but really lunch was a movable feast, you had it when you felt like it."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Camus |first1=Albert |translator-last1=Gilbert |translator-first1=Stuart |title=The Stranger |date=1946 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |page=34 |edition=Vintage Books |url=https://www.macobo.com/essays/epdf/CAMUS,%20Albert%20-%20The%20Stranger.pdf |access-date=2 July 2022}}</ref>
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