Top 450 Ernest Cline Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month.”

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402. “Knavery?” Art3mis said after she’d finished reading it. “Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?”

— Ernest Cline

403. “Don’t say that!” I was starting to cry and didn’t bother hiding it from her. “Is it because I told you I’ve never had a real girlfriend? And that I’m a virgin? Because-.”

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404. “I didn’t try to run. I didn’t even move. I just stood there and let justice take its course.”

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405. “According to him, the firmware on our OIVs has not been altered in any way – it just isn’t functioning properly now, due to the changes in Anorak’s infirmware.”

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406. “As we sprinted from the Candle Room to the Music Club to the Boudoir to the Virtual Video Room, a song called “Interactive” played on a continuous loop in every room. Aech explained that this was a song Prince wrote exclusively for a Myst-like videogame he released with the same title.”

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407. “Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Pink Floyd.”

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408. “Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames.”

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409. “The prize for the Earthworld contest was the Talisman of Penultimate Truth.”

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410. “No,” Daito said. “We’re not. You’re all strangers to us. For all we know, any one of you could be a Sixer spy.”

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411. “Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar’s chest and muttered a few arcane words.”

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412. “When I tried to access one of the other entertainment libraries, Vintage Movies, the system informed me that I wouldn’t be granted access to a wider selection of entertainment options until I had received an above-average rating in three consecutive employee performance reviews. Then the system asked me if I wanted more information on the Indentured Employee Entertainment Reward Program. I didn’t.”

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413. “The real van that I’d used as my hideout had been extracted from the junk pile and airlifted to Columbus, so it could be put on display in the GSS Museum.”

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414. “Once she and I started touching each other, we both found it difficult to stop.”

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415. “It was a partnership destined to alter the course of human history.”

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416. “That’s the first rule of online romances, pal. No one ever looks anything like their avatar.”

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417. “My God, it’s full of stars,” I heard a disembodied voice say. I recognized it as a sound bite from the film 2010.”

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418. “I need each of you to build the best rig you can, as fast as you can.”

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419. “Og led us through the mansion’s lavish front entrance. The lights were off inside, but instead of turning them on, Morrow took an honest-to-God torch off the wall and used it to illuminate our way.”

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420. “I actually switched to a third-person view for a few seconds, just to admire how cool my avatar looked wearing it.”

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421. “All I’d eaten that morning was a raw strawberry Pop-Tart I’d wolfed down in my car on the way to school – and.”

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422. “Since then, we’d used Street Fighter II to settle our disputes.”

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423. “Where’d you get the coconuts?”

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424. “Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Scalzi, Zelazny.”

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425. “OASIS. The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation.”

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426. “Admittedly, all the time I’d had to devote to the game had shaved a full point off my grade average, and it had probably cost me my relationship with Ellen, too.”

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427. “I didn’t get to find out who or what Kilgore was, because my father walked over and closed Milo’s pod canopy for him. Then he walked back over and watched nervously as I raised his QComm and placed the video call to my mother.”

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428. “So the real jaw-dropping news that January morning, the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes, concerned the contents of Halliday’s last will and testament, and the fate of his vast fortune.”

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429. “On the seven worlds where the Siren once played a role For each fragment my heir must pay a toll To once again make the Siren whole.”

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430. “His proclamation was met with a deafening roar of shouted threats, insults, and colorful profanity.”

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431. “We’ll do our best.” “I know you will.”

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432. “The Great Recession was now entering its third decade, and unemployment was still at a record high. Even the fast-food joints in my neighborhood had a two-year waiting list for job applicants.”

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433. “Con endoesqueletos accionados con servomotor.”

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434. “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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435. “Instead, he picked up his bass guitar, and, in what seemed like an odd coincidence, he began to play a solo version of “One of These Days” while staring up at the stars projected on the dome over our heads. Then I noticed a practice set list taped to the floor in front of him, and saw that several of the songs listed there were tracks I knew from my father’s old mixtapes.”

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436. “Leeroy Jenkins!”

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437. “The half dozen GSS employees inside all avoided making direct eye contact. I could guess what all of them were thinking: Meet the new boss, weird as the old boss.”

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438. “Her instinct was always to act out of kindness and generosity instead of self-interest. She was a better person than me, and I was a better person when I was around her.”

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439. “Yeah, I wish we could skip this storyline crap,” Cruz said. “Bor-ing.”

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440. “She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month. Most of the time, I had to find food on my own.”

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441. “I unclenched them. Then I glanced back at Ellen, to see if she was watching all of this. She was staring at Casey with a helpless expression, and her eyes were filled with pity.”

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442. “Listen,” I said. “It really was luck. I’ve got a knack for classic arcade games. That’s my specialty.” I shrugged. “Stop hitting yourself like Rain Man, OK?” She.”

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443. “It was still pretty dark down here, so I took out my flashlight and headed east, weaving my way through the dark maze, doing my best to remain unseen while being careful to avoid tripping over a shopping cart, engine block, or one of the other pieces of junk littering the narrow alleys between the stacks.”

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444. “As soon as they saw Aech’s score increase, they would have used Fyndoro’s Tablet of Finding and learned that he was currently on Frobozz.”

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445. “Something Daito had left to me in his will.”

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446. “And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.”

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447. “Some people define themselves by railing against all of the things they hate, while explaining why everyone else should hate it too.”

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448. “That was the reason a lot of our own users had started to refer to GSS as the “New Sixers” and me, Aech, Shoto, and Samantha as the “Four Nerds of the Apocalypse.”

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449. “But we also figured out how to do science, which helped us develop technology.”

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450. “Just a maintenance tech here, folks, heading home after a long night of rebooting routers. That’s all. I am definitely not an indent making a daring escape with ten zettabytes of stolen company data in his pocket. Nosiree.”

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