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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
Environmentalist
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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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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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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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
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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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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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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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It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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Men are loyal when you lead from the front.
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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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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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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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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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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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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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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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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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