9 Quotes & Sayings By Sylvain Neuvel

Sylvain Neuvel was born in Quebec City in 1975. He studied architecture at the Université du Québec à Montréal before leaving for Paris, where he worked as an architect for three years. He then moved to Hollywood, where he worked for numerous production companies. His first novel, Sleeping Giants, was published in 2011 by Del Rey Books Read more

It is the first part of a trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic world. His second novel, Polybori, was published by Random House in France in 2013 and is about a robotic species that has colonized the Earth. The third book in the series will be published in 2015 by Del Rey Books in the United States and Éditions Pocket Jeunesse in France.

You were made for a particular purpose, but you can...
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You were made for a particular purpose, but you can be anything you want. Anything, including that. Sylvain Neuvel
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North Korean troops gathering… inside North Korea.That is unheard of."" They were massing very close to the border."" North Korea is the size of Ohio. It would be geographically challenging for them to gather very far from the border. Sylvain Neuvel
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I think people are scared, and dumb, and selfish on their own, but put enough of them together and they'll be half-decent Sylvain Neuvel
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You will not die of pain, but you will never get used to it. Pain is unique in that it does not show habituation or neural adaptation, like smell, or touch. Sylvain Neuvel
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Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose."" Of course there is. Only until now, I'd been pretty successful at keeping that little brat's mouth shut. Sylvain Neuvel
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We’re not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there’d be a great many things in it we can’t comprehend. Sylvain Neuvel
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Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind. Sylvain Neuvel
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I came to realize that good and evil were out of my reach, that time was the only thing I had any control over. I could buy time, create intervals. I could not truly make the world a better place, but I could make part of it a better place for a short while. Sylvain Neuvel