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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Paolo Bacigalupi

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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
Environmentalist
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paonia
Colorado
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
Scorpion
Scorpions
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She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived.
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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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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
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I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is structured and trying to see what the author is doing behind the curtain.
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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
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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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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
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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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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to respect but never yield to. Pain was simply a message, telling him which limbs he could still use to slaughter his enemies, how far he could still run, and what his chances were in the next battle.
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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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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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