"We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it."

-- Paolo Bacigalupi

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“If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.”
“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.”
“A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle, the total golden tender presence of God everywhere, a pond over there, a beautiful field there, and some hills for people who like to hike, and this expansiveness in every direction of sky and light and physical beauty. And there is this section separated from the rest; it has beautiful high walls. The man who's just come to heaven says, "What's over there?" The angel says, "That's for the fundamentalists. They don't consider it heaven if anyone else got in.”
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
“The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.”

Source : "Likely lads' return" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.
“I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.”

Source : "Fat Cats and Shady Deals". www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2002.
“I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.”
“So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.”

Source : "High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2008.

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