Ernest Cline Quotes
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
Quotes to Explore
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
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There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.
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...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
