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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.

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.

Steven Hall
Inspirational, Spring, Mean
Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.25, Canongate Books

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.

Steven Hall
Beer, Ideas, Good Ideas

We only see starlight because all the stars are bleeding.

Steven Hall
Stars, Bleeding, Starlight
Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.252, Canongate Books

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

Steven Hall
Clever, Writing, Together

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.

Steven Hall
Dream, Clouds, Light
Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.177, Canongate Books

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.

Steven Hall
Assessment, Issues, Giving

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.

Steven Hall
Smart, Coffee, Animal
Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.18, Canongate Books

Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

Steven Hall
Texas, Chaos

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.

Steven Hall
Stupid, Cat, Responsibility
Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.99, Canongate Books

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.

Steven Hall
Hunting, Bird, Hunters

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