Quotes by Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi

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

Desert

Rivers

Stupid

All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others’ lives for it.

Average

Hazards

Wish

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Scorpions

Trouble

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn’t solve a water shortage.

Cities

Math

Winning

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.

Choices

Culture

Differences

Blood is not destiny.

Blood

Destiny

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Real

Stitches

Toys

Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

Burden

Debt

Heavy

Don’t tell me about worth,” Nita said. “My father commands fleets.” “The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money.” Tool leaned close. “Sadna once risked herself and the rest of her crew to help me escape from an oil fire… Your father commands fleets. And thousands of half-men, I am sure. But would he risk himself to save a single one?

Father

Fire

Men

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.

Children

Loss

Talking

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Accepting

Alive

Approval

Average

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Battle

Bits

Blame

Bleak

Blood

Blow

Book

Boys

Breathing

Burden

Care

Chess Game

Chess Pieces

Children

Choices

Cities

Coffee

Confusing

Cowardice

Creation

Culture

Debt

Desert

Destiny

Differences

Different

Doctors

Dog

Doubt

Dust

Ease

Environment

Evil

Example

Eye

Father

Fighting

Fire

Flying

Four

Fun

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Ghost

Gold

Green

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Quotes by Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi

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

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Blood is not destiny.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

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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