Steve Aylett > Quotes

“The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.”
― Steve Aylett

“Sanity’s a virginity of the mind
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― Steve Aylett, Atom

“In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.”
― Steve Aylett

“How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?
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― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?
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― Steve Aylett

“What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you’re in heaven, bored rigid
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― Steve Aylett

“Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination”
― Steve Aylett

“A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.”
― Steve Aylett, Toxicology

“Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull”
― Steve Aylett

“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive
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― Steve Aylett

“No matter how good the idea, there’s always an advocate extreme enough to deter people.”
― Steve Aylett

“Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree.”
― Steve Aylett

“Dreams always end before you kill the last person.”
― Steve Aylett, The Crime Studio

“I owed no morality to those who would extort it by force”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.”
― Steve Aylett, The Inflatable Volunteer

“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”
― Steve Aylett, Toxicology

“Crime is one of the many methods justice may select.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.”
― Steve Aylett, The Crime Studio

“Nothing like a spider in the mouth to get you thinking.
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― Steve Aylett, The Inflatable Volunteer

“Oppression evolves, like everything else.”
― Steve Aylett, Toxicology

“a story is ready when it falls from your face”
― steve aylett

“Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once”
― Steve Aylett

“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”
― Steve Aylett, Shamanspace

“A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.”
― Steve Aylett, Toxicology

“The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.”
― Steve Aylett, Toxicology

“We have truth in order not to die of art.
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― Steve Aylett