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Even humanity's lack of concern for its rampant overpopulation problem now made a terrible kind of sense. What difference did it make if our planet was capable of supporting all seven billion of us in the long term when a far greater threat to our numbers was waiting in the wings? And despite the overwhelming odds, humanity had done what was necessary to ensure its own survival. It filled me with a strange new sense of pride in my own species. We weren't a bunch of primitive monkeys teetering on the brink of self-destruction after all–this appeared ti be an altogether different kind of destruction we were teetering on the brink of. .Ernest Cline
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Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?Ernest Cline
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My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.Ernest Cline
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He died when he was only nineteen years old. I was still a baby at the time, so I didn't remember him. Growing up, I'd always told myself that was lucky. Because you can't miss someone you don't remember. But the truth was, I did miss him.Ernest Cline
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My father looked as if I’d just gutted him, and I felt a pang of regret–but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings–it was payback for the way his choices had irrevocably damaged my own.Ernest Cline