Paolo Bacigalupi Short Quotes

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If you act like a servant, you will die like a dog.

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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.

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Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

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If you bargain when they squeeze your balls, they will only squeeze again.

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

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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

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

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

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

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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

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

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

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They'd blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they'd still blame you.

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

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

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Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?

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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.

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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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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.

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Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.

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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 a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

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The symbol for the Environment Ministry is the eye of a tortoise, for the long view—the understanding that nothing comes cheap or quickly without a hidden cost.

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