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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
Environmentalist
Fantasy Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Paonia
Colorado
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.
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It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.
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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.
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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
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