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Ernest Cline
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 29
Blogger
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Ashland
Ohio
Ernest Christy Cline
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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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The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.
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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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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 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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...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
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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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As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.
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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’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.
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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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Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.
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I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the A-Team van or something.
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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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Going outside is highly overrated.
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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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I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
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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 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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