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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.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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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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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.
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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
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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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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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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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She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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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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