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Ernest Christy Cline is an American novelist, spoken-word artist, and screenwriter. He is mostly famous for his novels Ready Player One and Armada; he also co-wrote the screenplay of Ready Player One's upcoming film adaptation by Steven Spielberg.

✵ 29. March 1972
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Ready Player One
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Armada
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Famous Ernest Cline Quotes

“Going outside is highly overrated.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“One person can keep a secret, but not two.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“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.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

Ernest Cline Quotes about time

“I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

Ernest Cline Quotes

“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“You’re evil, you know that?” I said.
She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“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.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“A river of words flowed between us.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“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.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-’80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way. In a word:.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all thelyrics by heart.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“The Facts were right there waiting for me, hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“So I'm supposed to believe you're one of those mythical guys who only cares about a woman's personality, and not about the package it comes in?”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“I’d spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.”

Ernest Cline book Armada

Source: Armada

“Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“You cannot escape your destiny”

Ernest Cline book Armada

Armada

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