Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

Paolo Bacigalupi

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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

A. Scott Berg
- Time
- Great
- School
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

E. M. Forster
- Great
- Man
- Literature
I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

Irwin Thomas
- People
- Great
- Simple
A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

Nawal El Saadawi
- Live
- Women
- Why
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Walter Lippmann
- People
- Great
- Truth
The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

Felicity Jones
- People
- Great
- Different