Ben Aaronovitch: Quotes about time

Ben Aaronovitch is British television writer. Explore interesting quotes on time.
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“It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life.”

Source: Whispers Under Ground (2012), Chapter 25, “Ladbroke Grove” (p. 262)

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

Source: Whispers Under Ground (2012), Chapter 1, “Tufnell Park” (p. 5)

“There we continued the time-honored tradition of brazenly lying through our teeth while telling nothing but the truth.”

Source: Rivers of London (2011; American edition title: Midnight Riot), Chapter 10, “The Blind Spot” (p. 210)