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Ernest Cline

"As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. Weâ€™d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. Weâ€™d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation."

Source : Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.321, Random House

Ernest Cline

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“A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment."”
“Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.”
“I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.”

Source : "Tyson Chandler strips down". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 14, 2012.
“Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.”

Source : Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”
“You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.”
“I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine.”
“We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.”

Source : Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.97, Wendy Lamb Books
“You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.”

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