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• I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.

  Ernest Cline

  Girl, Boys, Glasses

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• Cops pull me over just to get a better look. They never give me a ticket, even if I'm speeding, but they will ask to take pictures.

  Ernest Cline

  Giving, Looks, Tickets

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• 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

  Kids, Play, Watches

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• Continue your quest by taking the test. 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

  Challenges, Pepsi, Quests

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• I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

  Ernest Cline

  Writing, Talking, Voice

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

  Ernest Cline

  Book, Hands, People

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'

  Ernest Cline

  Morning, Stars, Growing Up

  "Relive '80s pop culture in 'Ready Player One'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber. All right, I said uncertainly. But won't we be needing horses for that? Not horses, he replied, stepping away from his throne. Birds.

  Ernest Cline

  Horse, Kings, Bird

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• I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

  Ernest Cline

  Done, World, World Of Warcraft

  "A Few Minutes With Fanboys Writer Ernest Cline On Ready Player One". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. June 22, 2011.

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• 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

  Bullets, Months, Ammo

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.252, Random House

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• It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!

  Ernest Cline

  Dawn, Red, Red Dawn

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• I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.

  Ernest Cline

  Kids, Games, Atari

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• I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."

  Ernest Cline

  Daughter, Hypocrite, Thinking

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

  Ernest Cline

  Book, Character, People

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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

  Ernest Cline

  Force Fields, Nukes, Rockets

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• I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the "A-Team" van or something.

  Ernest Cline

  Team, Silly, Years

  "Relive '80s pop culture in 'Ready Player One'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• 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

  Favorite Words, Games, Two

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.14, Random House

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

  Ernest Cline

  Sex, Matter, Computer

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.193, Random House

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• I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.

  Ernest Cline

  Self Esteem, Guy, Champion

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

  Ernest Cline

  Culture, Use, Pops

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

  Ernest Cline

  Games, House, Three

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• "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

  Healing, Past, Light

  "Ready Player One". Book by Ernest Cline, 2011.

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• I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

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  Our Generation, Generations, Nostalgia

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• My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.

  Ernest Cline

  Dragons, Games, Office

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• In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

  Ernest Cline

  Lonely, Lying, Evil

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.74, Random House

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