Ernest Cline Quotes
Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.
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It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women’s advantage.
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Showing up is not all of life, but it counts for a lot.
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It wasn't quite what is seemed: a lack of pleasantries (My able body isn't what it used to be) I must admit I was charmed by your advances Your advantage left me helplessly into you
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A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
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I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.
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I saturated myself with the improv community.
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I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.
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Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.
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One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.
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I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.
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If Kim Jong Un is Chosun, as the slogan goes, then his decline in popularity must be the state’s too? But it doesn’t work that way. We all need to give our lives a sense of significance, of a meaning that lives on after our deaths. The North Koreans get that from their nationalism, which is one with their patriotism. If they lose that, what do they have?
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.
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Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.
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Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.