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Therein lay the secret to all fads: the herd instinct. People wanted to look like everybody else. That was why they bought white bucks and pedal pushers and bikinis. But someone had to be the first one to wear platform shoes, to bob their hair, and that took the opposite of herd instinct.

— Connie Willis Bellwether (1996)

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Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

Doomsday Book (1992)

Ah, Hollywood, where everybody wants to be in the movies and nobody’s ever bothered to watch one.

Remake (1994)

Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

Bellwether (1996)

A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.

Fire Watch (1985)

“Fifty-nine,” Mr. Mowen said. “That’s too many coincidences to just be a coincidence.”

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