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• 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.

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  Hatred, Teeth, Tails

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.128, Hachette UK

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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 to save anyone. He was just trying to not be part of the sickness. Mahlia had thought he was stupid for walking straight into death, but now, as she lay against the pillar, she saw it differently. She thought she'd been surviving. She thought that she'd been fighting for herself. But all she'd done was create more killing, and in the end it had all led to this moment, where they bargained with a demon ... not for their lives, but for their souls

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  Stupid, Fighting, Doctors

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

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  Thinking, Mad, Made

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.

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  Different, Three, Honest

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

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  Long Ago, Approval, Humans

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.71, Hachette UK

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

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  Life, Two, Four

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2010). “The Windup Girl”, p.214, Hachette UK

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• Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.

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  Strong, Writing, Ignorant

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• 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.

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  Stories, Honestly, Specificity

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