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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
Colorado
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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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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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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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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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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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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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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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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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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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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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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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
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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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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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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
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