Steve Aylett Quotes

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

  Steve Aylett

  Divorce, Ends, Hundred

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

  Steve Aylett

  Genius, Snipers, Enough

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

  Steve Aylett

  Rabbits, Truck, Bigger

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• 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

  Christian, Believe, Years

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

  Steve Aylett

  People, Scratches, May

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• 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

  Steve Aylett

  Bored, Heaven, Attention

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• Sanity’s a virginity of the mind

  Steve Aylett

  Mind, Sanity, Virginity

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

  Steve Aylett

  Book, Reader, Wells

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• 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

  Steve Aylett

  Dog, Punishment, Knowing

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• One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.

  Steve Aylett

  Skeletons, Giving, One Thing

  "Shaw thing", www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2006.

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• Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

  Steve Aylett

  Gun, America, Tea

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• 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.

  Steve Aylett

  Stars, Book, Sea

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• Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot

  Steve Aylett

  Self, Ideas

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• What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

  Steve Aylett

  Drivers, Happens

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

  Steve Aylett

  Book, People, Teeth

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

  Steve Aylett

  Phones, Vampire, Definitions

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

  Steve Aylett

  Men, Doe, Messages

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

  Steve Aylett

  Years, Lightning, May

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• 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.

  Steve Aylett

  Hope, Ambition, Goal

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• We have truth in order not to die of art.

  Steve Aylett

  Art, Order, Dies

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

  Steve Aylett

  Thinking, Way, Mischief

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

  Steve Aylett

  Writing, Space, Signatures

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• The law is where reality goes to die.

  Steve Aylett

  Reality, Law, Dies

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• Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it, but once it's inside you it's too late, and it triggers, blowing up. And it's your specific inner beliefs and faulty arguments that trigger a satire bomb. If your arguments work, the bomb doesn't trigger, it doesn't need to.

  Steve Aylett

  Needs, Looks, Too Late

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

  Steve Aylett

  Enemy, Biting, Ninja

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