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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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Paonia
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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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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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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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I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
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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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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
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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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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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We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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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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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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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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Blood is not destiny.
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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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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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