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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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
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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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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to respect but never yield to. Pain was simply a message, telling him which limbs he could still use to slaughter his enemies, how far he could still run, and what his chances were in the next battle.
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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
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