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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
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Paonia
Colorado
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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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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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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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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Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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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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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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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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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.
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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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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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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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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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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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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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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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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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