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Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

— 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.”

Fire Watch (1985)

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