Steve Aylett Quotes

#1. Nothing like a spider in the mouth to get you thinking.

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#2. He said he didn't like my kind and I was filled with the delirious expectation that he would identify me as a common species - that there were others like myself. I controlled my excitement, but he seemed to sense it - his gaze wavered uncertainly.

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#3. What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

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#4. Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it's the result of a deliberate series of steps on his or her part.

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#5. A sniper is like a genius - it's not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

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#6. Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.

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#7. Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

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#8. One thing you'll say for skeletons, they'll always give you a smile.

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#9. The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.

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#10. On July 13, 1994, Lint had a near-death experience, followed immediately by death.

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#11. In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.

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#12. Freedom in cyberspace'd be fine and dandy if we happened to live there.

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#13. Painkillers are the drugs of the future

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#14. A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

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#15. We have truth in order not to die of art.

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#16. To him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size

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#17. Television is light filled with someone else's anxiety.

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#18. Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree.

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#19. ...carved dolls stick to the rules.

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#20. I was never class clown in school,' said Lint in 1971. 'But I did have one of those "downward mouths".

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#21. Since childhood I'd been suspected of imagination

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#22. Oppression evolves, like everything else.

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#23. Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot

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#24. One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.

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#25. Behind the bar hung a photo of Roni Loveless, the boxer who, ordered to throw a fight, burst through an inner struggle to beat not only his opponent but everyone in the arena and its locality in an outward-blooming explosion of violence against suppressive mediocrity.

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#26. He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.

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#27. Sanity's a virginity of the mind

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#28. Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

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#29. a story is ready when it falls from your face

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#30. How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?

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#31. What's that thing when someone gets a knock on the head and suddenly can't remember anything about himself?'
Death,' said the barman, his face a mask of disapproval.

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#32. The trustiest rule of social disintegration: bars burn last.

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#33. Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

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#34. I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

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#35. The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

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#36. 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.

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#37. The law is where reality goes to die.

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#38. An office is a machine for dying.

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#39. There's no such thing as a normal angel. It's never done that way.

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#40. His clients ranged from the IRS to the mob.On one occasion the oil industry hired him to kill the inventor of a car which was fueled by depression. The moguls didn't know how to profit from such a cheap and abundant resource.

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#41. Melody tried to distract me in a skirt made of brain skin.

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#42. Pounce if I'm outta some arbitrary line, Specter, but from what you say this demilout's runnin' hogwild over creation with no better motive than a gratuitous and luxurious will to do evil.

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#43. In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

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#44. Parker always felt things in his bones because, he said, it saved space

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#45. It's hard for people to stampede when they're strutting

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#46. Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

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#47. From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

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#48. Dreams always end before you kill the last person.

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#49. Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

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#50. Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul

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#51. [...] god's cowardly, it doesn't want to know or take responsibility for what it's doing.

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#52. A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.

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#53. 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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#54. Murder's the taking of one man's life by another - war's the other way around.

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#55. I owed no morality to those who would extort it by force

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#56. We are a mirror to show god it's cruelty.

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#57. I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it

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#58. The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.

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#59. He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards

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#60. Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far

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#61. Looking at this town with an honest eye was like biting into candy with a mouthful of cavities.

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#62. Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

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#63. No matter how good the idea, there's always an advocate extreme enough to deter people.

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#64. The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.

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#65. A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.

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#66. This continued a negotiation in the spirit of sinking hoods and strange smiles, all that elite malarkey.

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#67. Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse

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#68. When the abyss gazes into you, bill it.

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