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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.

Paolo Bacigalupi

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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
Environmentalist
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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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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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is structured and trying to see what the author is doing behind the curtain.
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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 you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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