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1. "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
2. "a story is ready when it falls from your face" ~ Steve Aylett
3. "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." ~ Steve Aylett
4. "Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse" ~ Steve Aylett
5. "The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice." ~ Steve Aylett
6. "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
7. "The trustiest rule of social disintegration: bars burn last." ~ Steve Aylett
8. "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." ~ Steve Aylett
9. "A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us." ~ Steve Aylett
10. "...to him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size" ~ Steve Aylett
11. "Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it." ~ Steve Aylett
12. "The law is where reality goes to die." ~ Steve Aylett
13. "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." ~ Steve Aylett
14. "I owed no morality to those who would extort it by force" ~ Steve Aylett
15. "Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot" ~ Steve Aylett
16. "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" ~ Steve Aylett
17. "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
18. "Sanity's a virginity of the mind" ~ Steve Aylett
19. "Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised." ~ Steve Aylett
20. "A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death." ~ Steve Aylett
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. "Dreams always end before you kill the last person." ~ Steve Aylett
23. "Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once" ~ Steve Aylett
24. "Crime is one of the many methods justice may select." ~ Steve Aylett
25. "How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?" ~ Steve Aylett
26. "One thing you'll say for skeletons, they'll always give you a smile." ~ Steve Aylett
27. "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." ~ Steve Aylett
28. "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" ~ Steve Aylett
29. "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" ~ Steve Aylett
30. "Never refer to a large dog as a friend - he is in custody and he knows it." ~ Steve Aylett
31. "Eddie knelt and lifted a rock. ‘Lawyers,' he whispered." ~ Steve Aylett
32. "Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter." ~ Steve Aylett
33. "Freedom in cyberspace'd be fine and dandy if we happened to live there." ~ Steve Aylett
34. "An office is a machine for dying." ~ Steve Aylett
35. "Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far" ~ Steve Aylett
36. "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." ~ Steve Aylett
37. "We have truth in order not to die of art." ~ Steve Aylett
38. "Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses" ~ Steve Aylett
39. "I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell." ~ Steve Aylett
40. "Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree." ~ Steve Aylett
41. "From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails" ~ Steve Aylett
42. "Since childhood I'd been suspected of imagination" ~ Steve Aylett
43. "Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America." ~ Steve Aylett
44. "A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires." ~ Steve Aylett
45. "Parker always felt things in his bones because, he said, it saved space" ~ Steve Aylett
46. "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" ~ Steve Aylett
47. "Painkillers are the drugs of the future" ~ Steve Aylett
48. "A sniper is like a genius - it's not enough to be one, you have to be one at something." ~ Steve Aylett
49. "The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief." ~ Steve Aylett
50. "Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul" ~ Steve Aylett
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The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of nostalgia, like the immense sadness of a world at dusk. It was a daness, a missing, a pain which could send one soaring back into the past. The sorrow of the battlefield could not normally be pinpointed to one particular event, or even one person. If you focused on any one event it would soon become a tearing pain."
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