Trout quotes
35 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne."
"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example."
"Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best."
"A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion."
"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."
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"What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river."
"When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are."
"Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth."
"I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too."
"Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!"
"It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas."
