Steve Aylett Quotes

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• One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.
• How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?
• 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.
• A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.
• It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant…
• 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,…
• Sanity’s a virginity of the mind
• The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.
• Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.
• A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.
• Dreams always end before you kill the last person.
• In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.
• What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?
• 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…
• Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination
• Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree.

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