"The problem with surviving was that you ended……" — Paolo Bacigalupi
"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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26 Quotes by Paolo Bacigalupi
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It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty…
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.
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For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just…
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Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division,…
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Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying…
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Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode,…
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We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world…
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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…
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She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their…
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