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The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.

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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
Environmentalist
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paonia
Colorado
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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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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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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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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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
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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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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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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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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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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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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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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?
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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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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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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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