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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

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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 ...
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