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There were screams and yells from the street below as people saw what was happening. There would be lots of phone-camera footage on the news that night from people with more media-savvy than brains.

— Ben Aaronovitch Moon Over Soho (2011)

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Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.

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Anyone who’s taken statements from multiple witnesses to the same event will know how malleable memory is.

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Nothing attracts the powerful quite like more power.

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There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.

The Hanging Tree (2016)

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

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