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

— Ben Aaronovitch Lies Sleeping (2018)

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More quotes by Ben Aaronovitch

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

Whispers Under Ground (2012)

Nothing attracts the powerful quite like more power.

Lies Sleeping (2018)

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.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

It’s always better to tell a half-truth than a half-lie.

Moon Over Soho (2011)

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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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