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Going outside is highly overrated.
Ernest Cline
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Ernest Cline
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 29
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Ashland
Ohio
Ernest Christy Cline
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It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.
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I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
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I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.
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I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario.
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A river of words flowed between us.
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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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My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
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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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I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.
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As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.
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Lights, I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.
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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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One person can keep a secret, but not two.
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I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
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I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.
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I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
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I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.
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I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.
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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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Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
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