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It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.

— Connie Willis Doomsday Book (1992)

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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.

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

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