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Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (born August 6, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

Bribery, Ease, Law, Laws, Painful, Paper

I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.

Battle, Battles, Cowardice, Fight, Fighting, Won

Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.

Angry, Mad, Made, Things, Thinking

Blood is not destiny.

Blood, Destiny

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.

Limbs, Pain, Respect, Running, Terror, Yield

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

Blow, Dust, Epitaphs, Vanquished, Writing

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.

Chess, Chess Game, Chess Pieces, Games, Pawn, Sacrificed

It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.

Boys, Chinese, Cities, Kilo, Red, Soldier

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.

Crisscrossing, Food, Profit, Sake, Should, Time

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.

Beings, Division, Hatred, Nation, Tails, Teeth

For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus.

Book, Books, Fast, Fun, Military, Read

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Lying, Ocean, Side, Sides, Terrible

I like fast plots with things that explode.

Explode, Fast, Like, Plot, Plots, Things

A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

Stupid, Rivers, Desert, River, Place

I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

Writing, Procrastination, Quirky, Work, Habits

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Owe, Suicide

At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolithic description of your own hometown's future. Your choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out make all the difference, and ultimately, your fingerprints and biases and viewpoints are going to be all over the story.

Biases, Choices, Culture, Difference, Differences, Perfectly

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.

Honestly, Specificity, Stories, Tell, Told

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.

Cities, Example, Flying, Making, Warlords

Men are loyal when you lead from the front.

Front, Leadership, Loyal, Men

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