Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.
Interpretation
Fear can spread more rapidly than any illness, impacting people's actions and thoughts.
In this quote, Dan Brown highlights the insidious nature of fear, suggesting that it can influence and spread among people more quickly than any physical virus. Just as a virus can infect individuals and society, fear can create widespread anxiety and panic, affecting decisions, behavior, and overall societal health.
In practice
In a discussion about overcoming anxiety in a public speaking workshop.
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.
When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit
Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.
Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.
It is the harassers and assaulters who make us 'look bad,' not the women who have every right to expose crimes against them.
Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River. The peak is a coiled dragon, the city a crouching tiger more dazzling than before. The sky is spinning and the earth upside down. We are elated yet we must use our courage to chase the hopeless enemy. We must not stoop to fame like the overlord Hsiang Yu. If heaven has feeling it will grow old and watch our seas turn into mulberry fields.
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