Trout Fishing in America
Richard Brautigan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.”
“He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.”
“The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.”
“He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.”
“I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard”
“USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED.”
“You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.”
“I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.”
“After he graduated from college, he went to Paris and became an Existentialist. He had a photograph taken of Existentialism and himself sitting at a sidewalk cafe. Pard was wearing a beard and he looked as if he had a huge soul, with barely enough room in his body to contain it.”
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Book Keywords:
undressing, trout-stream, fishing, old-woman, bed, trout
