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Quotes from Tales from the Folly — Ben Aaronovitch

born 1964 England

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I wondered, not for the first time, whether all farmers become obsessed or if only obsessive people become farmers.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

It’s a police rule of thumb that anything involving members of the public takes twice as long as you think it will.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

Inside he had the soul of an accountant, but alas none of the facility with numbers.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

He didn’t have “instincts”, he had thirty years of experience—which was much more reliable.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

It was already one of the hazards of being police that you became suspicious of the everyday. You didn’t have to spend much time on the job before realising that professional criminals are comparatively rare and that crime is something committed by ordinary people.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

With a rich history like that there was nothing to be done except flatten it and replace it with a shopping arcade designed in the who-the-fuck-cares school of retail architecture. The result was a two-story warehouse with a flat roof designed to maximise floor space and nothing else.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

“Unless you believe it was a coincidence that Melvin the Rat turned up at a party we were hosting.”
Actually I thought it probably was, but I found that when people are nursing a grievance it’s a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ben Aaronovitch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.