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“Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.”
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Steven Hall
Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.25, Canongate Books
#Inspirational Quotes
#Spring Quotes
#Mean Quotes
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“Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.”
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Steven Hall
Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.177, Canongate Books
#Dream Quotes
#Clouds Quotes
#Light Quotes
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“It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk in the fridge to go sour; that everyday functional things will outlive us and prove that we weren't ready to go; that we weren't smart or knowing or heroic; that we were just animals whose animal bodies stopped working without any sort of schedule or any consent from us.”
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Steven Hall
Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.18, Canongate Books
#Smart Quotes
#Coffee Quotes
#Animal Quotes
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“A cat is a responsibility after all. And feeding and keeping and caring about a stupid fat cat isn't much, isn't much in the entirety of what counts for being a person and the huge range of what people do,but it is something. It is something and it's something that's warm and that I still have.”
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Steven Hall
Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.99, Canongate Books
#Stupid Quotes
#Cat Quotes
#Responsibility Quotes
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“The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper disposal of shot, shells and things.”
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Steven Hall
#Issues Quotes
#Assessment Quotes
#Giving Quotes
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“Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.”
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Steven Hall
#Hunting Quotes
#Bird Quotes
#Shooting Quotes
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“Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.”
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Steven Hall
#Texas Quotes
#Chaos Quotes
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“There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles”
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Steven Hall
#Clever Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Together Quotes
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“Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.”
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Steven Hall
#Beer Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Good Ideas Quotes
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“We only see starlight because all the stars are bleeding.”
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Steven Hall
Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.252, Canongate Books
#Stars Quotes
#Bleeding Quotes
#Starlight Quotes
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“There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles”
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Steven Hall
#Clever Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Together Quotes
