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21 " 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
22 " No matter how good the idea, there’s always an advocate extreme enough to deter people. "
23 " 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 "
24 " Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised. "
― Steve Aylett , Slaughtermatic
25 " A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death. "
― Steve Aylett , Toxicology
26 " Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree. "
27 " One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile. "
28 " Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America. "
29 " Dreams always end before you kill the last person. "
― Steve Aylett , The Crime Studio
30 " I owed no morality to those who would extort it by force "
31 " Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once "
32 " Nothing like a spider in the mouth to get you thinking. "
― Steve Aylett , The Inflatable Volunteer
33 " A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something. "
34 " 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. "
35 " The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief. "
36 " 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. "
37 " One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of god’s existence. "
― Steve Aylett , Atom
38 " Crime is one of the many methods justice may select. "
39 " Oppression evolves, like everything else. "
40 " The clerk tripped on the carpet, hit a window and went through, carrying with him a vase which had been on the sill. His skull broke like the vase and the vase broke like his skull, and both burst forth water mainly, and from the vase some flowers. If I could choose a death I’d make it something like that, except I’d add a good woman and some lard. "