Ernest Cline Quotes
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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I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
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Don't call a girl a flirt, she's just trying to be nice. Don't call a girl obsessed when she's just in love.
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A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.
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It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
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Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
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The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
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Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I love owning my masters.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.
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Chicago was a big influence on all three of us growing up. I admire their musical integrity. When the opportunity came up to produce them, I couldn't let it go by.
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On golf: One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
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People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics, I think, are more indicative of problems with some things going on at the frontier of physics than ideas that are gonna last.
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A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write carelessly or suddenly, to add or insert suddenly or carelessly to or in the page. "To dash" comes from Middle English daschen, itself probably from Scandinavian-compare Danish daske, to beat, to strike. Ultimately the word is-rather obviously-echoic.
