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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.

Paolo Bacigalupi

It's human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

Paolo Bacigalupi

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?

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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

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

Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi

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Born: August 6, 1972 (age 52)

Bio: Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

Known for:

The Windup Girl (2009)
Ship Breaker (2010)
The Water Knife (2015)
The Drowned Cities (2012)
Pump Six and Other Stories (2008)

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