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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
Fantasy Author
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Paonia
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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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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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Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.
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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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What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.
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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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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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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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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 write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
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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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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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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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Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
Paolo Bacigalupi
She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
Paolo Bacigalupi
The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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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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