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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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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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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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The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.
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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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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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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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Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.
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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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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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Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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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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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
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