Sylvain Neuvel Quotes

#1. It's easier to be just one more soldier in a giant army than being the whole army by yourself.

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#2. Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind.

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#3. Mr. Couture is not an American citizen. He is from Montreal. It is a large city, about the size of Boston, in that very large country just north of here. You may have heard of it. They play hockey. -

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#4. 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.

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#5. People often confuse leadership with managerial skills.

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#6. Yes. This, all that's happening now, this is your bat mitzvah. You can play with atoms, you can sit with the grown-ups."
"What does that mean for us?"
"That means you won't be forgiven for childhood mistakes anymore.

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#7. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

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#8. It would make things easier for both of us, especially for you, if we could forgo the part of this conversation where you take me for a complete idiot...

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#9. Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they've been told was true. Scientists are no different; they've just been told a lot more things.

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#10. Family has a way of bringing out the worst in people. Every people.

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#11. I was smart enough to know it was wrong, but not brave enough to stop them.

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#12. 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.

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#13. I thought something bad might have happened to him. It's nice to know he just doesn't want to talk to me.

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#14. You were made for a particular purpose, but you can be anything you want. Anything, including that.

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#15. She has more issues than the New York Times.

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#16. 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.

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#17. What I am is very much a function of what I am not. If the "other" is the Muslim world, then I am the Judeo-Christian world. IF the other is from thousands of light-years away, I am simply human. Redefine alterity and you can erase boundaries.

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#18. We wouldn't really see anything at night, from this altitude, but it still felt good, like a layover in Paris. You never leave the airport, but even so, you're in Paris.

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#19. 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.

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#20. If you fall in love with someone, there's a good chance the person won't love you back. Hatred, though, is usually mutual. If you despise someone, it's pretty much a given they're also not your biggest fan.

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#21. I never understood why people use words they do not understand.

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