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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
Environmentalist
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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived.
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Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.
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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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We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
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Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.
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Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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Blood is not destiny.
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She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
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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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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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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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The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
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