Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young! — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As a younger man, Trout would have sneered at the sign about brotherhood—posted on the rim of a bomb crater, as anyone… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He told Trout about people he'd heard of in the area who grabbed live copperheads and rattlesnakes during church services, to show… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I can’t tell if you’re serious or not,” said the driver. “I won’t know myself until I find out whether life is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In Trout's novel, The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank, the hero is on a space ship two hundred miles long and sixty-two miles in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Trout sat back and thought about the conversation. He shaped it into a story, which he never got around to writing until… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He had a point. The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.… — kurt vonnegut Copy Share Image
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Oh, Mr. Trout...teach us to sing and dance and laugh and cry. We've tried to survive so long on money and sex… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“—Yo tampoco lo sabré hasta averiguar si la vida bromea o no —dijo Trout—. Es peligrosa, y puede doler mucho. Pero eso… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I won’t know myself until I find out whether life is serious or not,” said Trout. “It’s dangerous, I know, and it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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