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1 " A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires. "
― Steve Aylett , The Inflatable Volunteer
2 " 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
3 " We have truth in order not to die of art. "
4 " Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses "
― Steve Aylett , Toxicology
5 " I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell. "
― Steve Aylett , Shamanspace
6 " From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails "
7 " 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 "
8 " Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination "
9 " Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse "
10 " a story is ready when it falls from your face "
11 " 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 "
12 " 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 "
13 " What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous? "
14 " Eddie knelt and lifted a rock. ‘Lawyers,’ he whispered. "
15 " Climbing into the treehouse, I engaged him in light conversation and hunted for signs of creativity. All I found was a brass rubbing of his ego. "
― Steve Aylett , Bigot Hall
16 " Even the conspirators’ mistakes fed into the desired result. The term ‘rifle among Oswald’s possessions’ passed into the evidence and Report despite the fact that it was an order, not an evidentiary observation. "
― Steve Aylett , Lint
17 " The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer. "
18 " In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that. "
19 " Sanity’s a virginity of the mind "
― Steve Aylett , Atom
20 " How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message? "
― Steve Aylett , Slaughtermatic
