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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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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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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
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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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It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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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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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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Men are loyal when you lead from the front.
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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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We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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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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Blood is not destiny.
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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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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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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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