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.
I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.
I have nothing to hide. I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween.
Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to dieβthat takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.
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