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Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

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Originally, ‘The Windup Girl’ started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn’t work very well.  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we’re failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) I have friends who are science journalists, and I’m seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they’re pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) I’m particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) 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  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) If you act like a servant, you will die like a dog  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Suicide is not something I owe you or yours  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) An untrampled scorpion troubles no one  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) A desert’s a stupid place to put a river  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Men are loyal when you lead from the front  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) If you bargain when they squeeze your balls, they will only squeeze again  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) 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  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) She does not know how little anyone cares to separate wheat from chaff, when all anyone wants to do is burn a field  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes) 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  (Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes)
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