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Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.
— Ernest Cline
I was having the best game of my life. This was it. I could feel it. Everything was finally falling in to place. I had the glow.
— Ernest Cline
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
— Ernest Cline
I was too weird, even for the weirdos.
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Yeah. I was on a roll. In less than six months, I'd managed to wreck both of my closest friendships.
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Knavery?" Art3mis said after she'd finished reading it. "Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?
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1977 - Star Wars is released on 5/25/77. Highest grossing movie in history. First wave of brainwashing in prep for invaders arrival?
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Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
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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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Smooth move, Ex-lax," I heard Art3mis say.
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A river of words flowed between us.
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One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character?
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My Shoes. Black Chuck Taylor All Stars. They bestow their wearer with both speed and flight.
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The apple had fallen right next to the crazy tree.
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People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.
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A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field?
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We'll do our best." "I know you will.
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At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot.
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I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he'd pushed the big red one first.
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She used to make me wear earplugs at night so I wouldn't hear her in the next room, talking dirty to tricks in other time zones.
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If there was a bright center to the universe, I was on the planet it was farthest from.
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Anorak" was a nickname Halliday had been given by a female British exchange student at his high school.
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And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.
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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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These new helmets can read your thoughts, too," Ray joked. "But you have to think in Russian.
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WarGames had been one of Halliday's all-time favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times.
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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.
— Ernest Cline
I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.
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For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
— Ernest Cline
Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds.
— Ernest Cline
Dilettantes,' Art3mis said. 'It's their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.
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I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
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That was a giant ball of fail. What now?
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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 could barely believe myself. IOI had actually tried to kill me. To prevent me from winning a videogame contest. It was insane.
— Ernest Cline
We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading.
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Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying.
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It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.
— Ernest Cline
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.
— Ernest Cline
Going outside is highly overrated.
— Ernest Cline
No, we always get killed because of you, Leeroy Jenkins!
— Ernest Cline
Where'd you get the coconuts?
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It's cold as balls in here!
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I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
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The Facts were right there waiting for me,hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest
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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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We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.
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His paternal tone irked me no end, and that helped to steel my resolve. I couldn't sell out the the Sixers.
— Ernest Cline
I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame.
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For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.
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Space - First coin-op arcade game - port of Spacewar!
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Anonymity was one of the major perks of the OASIS.
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Time to make the doughnuts.
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Inside were long rows of blue teleportation booths. Their shape and color always reminded me of Doctor Who's TARDIS.
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I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.
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now had a cure for all forms of cancer, which had eradicated the disease in a matter of weeks.
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The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry.
— Ernest Cline
The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.
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You're evil, you know that?" I said. She grinned and shook her head. "Chaotic Neutral, sugar. — Ernest Cline
Somebody set up us the bomb,' pal," he quoted. "Now it's time to take off every zig for great justice.
— Ernest Cline
I'm sort of like Q in the James Bond films. Except, you know, I only get to hand out this one thing.
— Ernest Cline
Screw you, Aech! And your dead grandma!
— Ernest Cline
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
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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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When I reached the bar, I ordered a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster from the female Klingon bartender and downed half of it.
— Ernest Cline
Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria!
— Ernest Cline
he appeared to have run out of shits to give sometime in the previous century. Today,
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