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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
Environmentalist
Fantasy Author
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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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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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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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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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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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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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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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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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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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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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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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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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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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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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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
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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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It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
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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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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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