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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

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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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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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Men are loyal when you lead from the front.
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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 write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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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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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
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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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