Ernest Cline Quotes
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Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.
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Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
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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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"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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I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
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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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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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I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.
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I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.
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I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'
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The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.
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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 noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.
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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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You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.
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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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Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!
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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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No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.
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My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.
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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'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
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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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I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.