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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
Trouble
Scorpion
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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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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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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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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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It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
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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.
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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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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
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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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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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