Ernest Cline quote: "I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. 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."

I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari...
ERNEST CLINE

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
ERNEST CLINE

My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and D...
ERNEST CLINE

I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '...
ERNEST CLINE

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do a...
ERNEST CLINE

That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up ...
ERNEST CLINE

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

At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot.
ERNEST CLINE

Even humanity's lack of concern for its rampant overpopulation problem now made a terrible kind of s...
ERNEST CLINE

People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.
ERNEST CLINE

In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyri...
ERNEST CLINE

Shit!" I heard Diehl shout over the comm. "I just lost my gorram shields because I'm already out of ...
ERNEST CLINE

I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at...
ERNEST CLINE

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common w...
ERNEST CLINE

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really k...
ERNEST CLINE

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly ...
ERNEST CLINE

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'
ERNEST CLINE

I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydre...
ERNEST CLINE

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd ne...
ERNEST CLINE

Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any b...
ERNEST CLINE

Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I...
ERNEST CLINE

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
ERNEST CLINE

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.
PATSY CLINE

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
PATSY CLINE

I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.
PATSY CLINE

My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!
PATSY CLINE

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.
PATSY CLINE

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
PATSY CLINE

I'm gonna walk a little bit of dog.
PATSY CLINE

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and ...
PATSY CLINE

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from ...
PATSY CLINE

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.
PATSY CLINE

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.
PATSY CLINE

I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.
PATSY CLINE

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for ...
PATSY CLINE

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.
PATSY CLINE

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
PATSY CLINE

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to ma...
PATSY CLINE

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have ...
PATSY CLINE

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Tak...
PATSY CLINE

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I ...
PATSY CLINE

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anythin...
PATSY CLINE

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.
PATSY CLINE

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
PATSY CLINE

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
PATSY CLINE

I'm gonna be something one of these days.
PATSY CLINE

I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the art...
EMMA CLINE

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I gues...
PATSY CLINE

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who w...
PATSY CLINE

We just wouldn't let anybody beat us is all...we were an exceptional group.
BILL CLINE

It is probably the single most significant step in the history of the exchange.
BILL CLINE

Larger hubs of buyers and sellers combined together make it easier for them to find one another.
BILL CLINE

It may just simply not be cost-effective to maintain the physical trading floor.
BILL CLINE

I think they have a limited amount of room to raise prices and fees. There's only so much they can d...
BILL CLINE

They are going to turn a lot of attention to a growth strategy ... striving to meet the investor gro...
BILL CLINE

Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of live. How badly they need it, and h...
EMMA CLINE

So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing e...
EMMA CLINE

That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you...
EMMA CLINE

It's always good for Scots to get together. There will be a toast to the queen and a toast to the pr...
DALE CLINE

It shows a visual, graphic alternative to thirsty turf grass.
ROB CLINE

The transaction level is a substantially higher level of abstraction than standard behavioral level,...
BRETT CLINE

You couldn't get into that gym...when the B game started that place was packed.
BILL CLINE

Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with bein...
EMMA CLINE

Gran parte del deseo, a esa edad, era un acto deliberado. Nos empeñábamos en difuminar los bordes ...
EMMA CLINE

We're very east Texas people,
PATSY CLINE

we're choosy who we work with.
PATSY CLINE

"Here's to those who wish us well and those who don't can go to hell." - Patsy Cline
PATSY CLINE

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've t...
PATSY CLINE

In college, I got my roommate into this. It's a lot of fun. I love history. The historical aspect of...
DALE CLINE

I know it was a shady thing that went on, but this little town has been shady for a long time.
BILL CLINE

It's not one of those things where we baby-sit them for a weekend. It's a total training process.
BILL CLINE

If [the detainees] had an opportunity to get at me, they'd get at me. If they have the opportunity t...
BILL CLINE

I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn't. The ...
EMMA CLINE

It was a gift. What did I do with it? Life didn't accumulate as I'd once imagined. I graduated from ...
EMMA CLINE

That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic t...
EMMA CLINE

You just watch them in awe.
LARRY CLINE

He stressed the interpersonal relationship of the doctor and patient,
DAVID CLINE

It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belong...
EMMA CLINE

The problem here is easy access to a firearm. Here is someone who never should have had a gun that h...
PHIL CLINE

At that age I looked at women with brutal and emotionless judgement. Assessing the slope of their br...
EMMA CLINE

We played very hard and unfortunately came up on the short end of the score. I am very proud of our ...
TIM CLINE

If Jacksonville would have won, we would have had to play at West Brunswick (today) to determine who...
DIRK CLINE

It was a classic battle out there today. There were a lot of close battles on every court; lots of l...
DIRK CLINE

I feel like smacking you in the mouth, dude, I really do. I can't even look at you. I tried to help ...
GEORGE CLINE

we are not prepared at this time to say that any one person is responsible for these homicides. This...
PHIL CLINE

There's really only one way out and one way in. Once he's inside and by that front door, he's got th...
PHIL CLINE

He got up. He had the gun. They ordered him to drop the gun. He refused to drop the gun, and that's ...
PHIL CLINE

We are not prepared at this time to say that any one person is responsible for these homicides, ... ...
PHIL CLINE

The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of my girl's face-- I think Suzanne recognized it. Of c...
EMMA CLINE

They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability t...
EMMA CLINE

She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those dis...
EMMA CLINE

Twisting the nipple so I inhaled audibly, and he hesitated for a moment but kept going. His dick sme...
EMMA CLINE

Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with bein...
EMMA CLINE

nobody thought until later that strangers might be anything but friends. Our love for one another bo...
EMMA CLINE

Break down the self, offer yourself up like dust to the universe.
EMMA CLINE

At that age, I was, first and foremost, a thing to be judged, and that shifted the power in every in...
EMMA CLINE

That was the strange thing - I didn't hate my father. He had wanted something. Like I wanted Suzanne...
EMMA CLINE

Everyone, later, would find it unbelievable that anyone involved in the ranch would stay in that sit...
EMMA CLINE

That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.
EMMA CLINE

Adults always teased me about having boyfriends, but there was an age where it was no longer a joke,...
EMMA CLINE

No one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she became my definition. Her gaze softe...
EMMA CLINE

The ways your desire could humiliate you.
EMMA CLINE

We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts o...
EMMA CLINE

...I was confusing familiarity with happiness. Because that was there even when love wasn't...
EMMA CLINE

Life a continuous backing away from the edge.
EMMA CLINE

So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing e...
EMMA CLINE

I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark mov...
EMMA CLINE

My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word...
EMMA CLINE

Mitch studied me with a questioning, smug smile. Men did it so easily, that immediate parceling of v...
EMMA CLINE

I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scal...
EMMA CLINE

They didn’t have very far to fall—I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability...
EMMA CLINE

She was lost in that deep and certain sense that there was nothing beyond her own experience. As if ...
EMMA CLINE

And now I was older, and the wishful props of future selves had lost their comforts. I might always ...
EMMA CLINE

They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to...
EMMA CLINE

You wanted things and you couldn't help it, because there was only your life, only yourself to wake ...
EMMA CLINE

Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little mo...
EMMA CLINE

Our big priority now is to come to terms with the building and meet the deadline before the county i...
GEORGE CLINE

When I started, we still filed checks by signature. We didn't even have account numbers.
GEORGE CLINE

I knew he had a short temper, but I never thought he would take something that far. He could have co...
GEORGE CLINE

A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob ...
EMMA CLINE

Hatred was easy. The permutations constant over the years: A stranger at a fair who palmed my crotch...
EMMA CLINE

He couldn't put up the numbers if he didn't learn to hit. He knows what pitches to lay off and what ...
LARRY CLINE

Bruce hit them over the light poles, and people started following him just to see him hit them.
LARRY CLINE

I was his mobile pitching machine.
LARRY CLINE

If they combine a Schuyler-Brown FSA, they still have a NRCS office sitting in each county. We work ...
ROB CLINE

I'd seen old Yardley Slickers- the makeup now just a waxy crumble- sell for almost one hundred dolla...
EMMA CLINE

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
ERNEST SHACKLETON

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics thi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt abo...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of oth...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things tha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the pu...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and writ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is usef...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You're beautiful, like a May fly.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist&...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At on...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just de...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like d...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long adv...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Time is the least thing we have of.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Man is not made for defeat.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the ani...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The shortest answer is doing the thing.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness excep...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder whil...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

We are gods with anuses.
ERNEST BECKER

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
ERNEST RENAN

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou...
ERNEST BEVIN

I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy to...
ERNEST BORGNINE

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
ERNEST GAINES

Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
ERNEST RENAN

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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