Ernest Cline Quotes

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• Going outside is highly overrated.

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  Overrated

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• No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

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  Beautiful, World, Want

  "Ready Player One". Book by Ernest Cline, 2011.

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• Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

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  Being Human, Videogame, Bearable

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• I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

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  Care, Quitting, Obsessed

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House

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• Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!

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  Games, House, Video

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• I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

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  Real, Home, Oasis

  "Woodsy's World of Star Wars: My Q+A with Fanboys Screenwriter Ernest Cline!!". Interview with Laurel Woods, www.mtv.com. August 16, 2011.

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• You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

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  Looks, Born

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.18, Random House

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• Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly virtual reality is adopted. He's going to shows the whole world the potential of VR, which is one of the reasons I think he's doing it. Once you have to compose for 360 degrees, and a movie is different every time you watch it depending on where you choose to look, it's like the dawn of a new era.

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  Player, Reality, Thinking

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

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  Life, Stars, Perspective

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.22, Random House

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• I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

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  Silly, Thinking, Youth

  "‘Ready Player One’: An Interview with Author Ernest Cline". Interview with Rebecca Serle, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

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  Cute, Girl, Ukulele

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House

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• If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

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  Moving, Simple, Player

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• You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

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  Wonder, Easy, Humans

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• I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

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  Kings, Writing, Ends

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.

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  Sexy, Evil, Guy

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

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  Real, Self Esteem, Kids

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• You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

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  Evil, Sugar, Said

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.96, Random House

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• You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

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  Funny, Life, Humorous

  "Ready Player One". Book by Ernest Cline, 2011.

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• Everybody has this fond association with the car from Back to the Future, but most people have never seen one. I've seen people drive off the berm trying to take pictures. It ends up being dangerous.

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  People, Car, Trying

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

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  Kids, Play, Watches

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• As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

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  Two, Skin Color, Years

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.321, Random House

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• One person can keep a secret, but not two.

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  Two, Secret, Persons

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.118, Random House

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• I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

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  Teenage, Noses, Body

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.28, Random House

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• Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

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  Python, Eagles, Iron

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

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  Party, Cartoon, Tvs

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