Dan Brown's Quotes

#1. Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

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#2. Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades" - bodiless souls trapped between life and death.

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#3. To fly or not to fly, that's the question.

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#4. Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

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#5. The man was no stranger to deception, and yet his heart was pounding wildly now. He took another deep, throbbing breath. You've been deceiving people for years, he reminded himself. It's what you do.

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#6. Man's morality was not advancing as fast as man's science. Mankind was not spiritually evolved enough for the powers he possessed. We have never created a weapon we have not used!

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#7. Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

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#8. What's the matter?' She immediately started laughin. 'What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!

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#9. When the ancients discovered 'Phi', they were certain they had stumbled across God's building block for the world.

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#10. Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.

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#11. Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

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#12. I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.

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#13. The Rose has always been the premiere symbol of female sexuality. In primitive goddess cults, the five petals represented the five stations of female life - birth, menstruation, motherhood, menopause, and death. And in modern times, the flowering rose's ties to womanhood are considered more visual.

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#14. No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice.

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#15. Pain is part of growing up.It's how we learn.

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#16. Destructive thoughts have influence, too, and we all know it's far easier to destroy than it is to create.

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#17. It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

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#18. God's will is your deepest desires.

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#19. For years I've studied the ancients' claims of man's awesome mental power, and now science is showing us that accessing that power is an actual physical process. Our brains, if used correctly, can call forth powers that are quite literally superhuman.

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#20. My staff is made up of politicians, Rachel, not scientists. You've met Dr. Marlinson. I think he's terrific, but if I let an astrophysicist loose on my team of left-brain, think-inside-the-box intellectuals, I'll end up with a herd of deer in the headlights.

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#21. The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

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#22. ( ... ) - So you mean that even having the power to interfere and prevent your child
feel pain, you would choose to show their love letting him learn his
own lessons?
- Sure, pain is part of growing up. It's how we learn.
The camerlegno shook his head.
- Exactly.
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#23. There's a lot of stress ... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

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#24. Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

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#25. Learning the truth has become my life's love.

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#26. America's forefathers had a vision of a spiritually enlightened utopia, in which freedom of thought, education of the masses, and scientific advancement would replace the darkness of outdated religious superstition.

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#27. decode...........

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#28. Science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies - two different languages telling the same story, a story of symmetry and balance ... heaven and hell, night and day, hot and cold, God and Satan. Both science and religion rejoiced in God's symmetry ... the endless contest of ight and dark.

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#29. Breathe through your eyes," she said. "I'm sorry?" "It relaxes the muscles. It's called pranayama.

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#30. The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it. The prophesy of the Apocalypse is just one of the Bible's beautiful messages that has been distorted.

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#31. I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

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#32. Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's
Technology

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#33. Any environmental biologist or statistician will tell you that humankind's best chance of long-term survival occurs with a global population of around four billion.

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#34. Zobrist yesterday afternoon." "We most certainly did - " Sienna placed a restraining hand on Langdon's arm. "Robert ... " She gave a grim sigh. "Six

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#35. Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."
- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation".

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#36. Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world,

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#37. The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

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#38. As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

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#39. I'm a fan of the truth ... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

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#40. I want to believe," he heard himself say.
Victoria's reply carried no judgement or challenge. "So why don't you?"
He chuckled. "Well, it's not that easy. Having faith requires leaps of faith, cerebral acceptance of miracles, immaculate conceptions an divine interventions

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#41. Throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing - - that a great enlightenment is coming.

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#42. One does not go to Vatican City with one's ass hanging out.

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#43. As if to proclaim his home a British Isle unto itself, Teabing had not only posted his signs in English, but he had installed his gate's intercom entry system on the right-hand side of the truck - the passenger's side everywhere in Europe except England.

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#44. Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone ... the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks

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#45. Remember tonight ... for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri

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#46. Fear, Katherine had once heard, acted as a stimulant sharpening the mind's ability to think.

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#47. "Cardinal Baggia," the killer hissed. "Have you prayed yet?" The Italian's eyes were fearless. "Only for your soul.

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#48. In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

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#49. SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

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#50. A reader's desire to guess what I've hidden is always more exciting than anything I can show.

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#51. Was at the core of primeval beliefs. Its names are as old as history itself ... Dharmakaya, Tao, Brahman.

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#52. Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage ... an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.

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#53. The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

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#54. Last week,he had become so enraged with a visiting scientist who had shown him undue pity that Kholer clambered to his feet and threw a clipboard at the man's head.

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#55. Was Hale. He glanced toward Node 3, wondering if the cryptographer were watching. "Fuck it," he grumbled. Below his feet the outline of a recessed trapdoor

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#56. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning.

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#57. He saw blurry white forms. Why they all are wearing white? Langdon decided he was either in an asylum or heaven. From the burning in his throat, Langdon decided it could not be heaven.

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#58. I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

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#59. Such are the laws of nature and balance. An if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing.

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#60. In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.

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#61. Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle - like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

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#62. Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

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#63. By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

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#64. FACT: In 1991, a document was locked in the safe of the director of the CIA. The document is still there today. Its cryptic text includes references to an ancient portal and an unknown location underground. The document also contains the phrase "It's buried out there somewhere.

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#65. This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.

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#66. The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine's mouth. "Death," he
whispered to her, "should be a quiet thing.

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#67. I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars ... I'm not bitter at all ...

Bill Bailey

#68. I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

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#69. Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

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#70. It sounds as if you are trapped in a cycle of thinking about yourself and how you don't belong in the world.

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#71. In dangerous times, there is no sin greater than inaction.

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#72. I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

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#73. And maybe that's why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are ... capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.

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#74. Cathedral terminology was like stage directions - totally counterintuitive.

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#75. Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof if its validity. -Robert Langdon

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#76. It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

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#77. Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

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#78. There's just no substitute for the truth.

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#79. The chalice," he said, "resembles a cup or vessel, and more important, it resembles the shape of a woman's womb. This symbol communicates femininity, womanhood, and fertility.

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#80. He had also forgotten that iron brands, just like rubber stamps, never looked like their imprints. They were in reverse. Langdon had been looking at the brand's negative.

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#81. Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.

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#82. Isn't antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.
Enterprise?

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#83. It seemed Eve's bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.

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#84. From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole,
'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.
The path of light is laid, the sacred test,
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.

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#85. Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescopes to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be s God!

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#86. Forgiveness is God's greatest gift

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#87. Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

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#88. It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

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#89. Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell

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#90. If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

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#91. Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

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#92. It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

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#93. Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear the influence of Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and others in his playing, but Dave has his own voice, and it's a nice one!

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#94. We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

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#95. To do nothing is to welcome Dante's hell - cramped and starving, weltering in Sin. And so boldly I have taken action. Some will recoil in horror, but all salvation comes at a price. One day the world will grasp the beauty of my sacrifice.

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#96. Museum's Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing

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#97. Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

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#98. In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

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#99. After Max's outburst at lunchtime, he steered clear of me the rest of the day, and after school, I rode out to Freak Lake to think. The leaves had long passed the bright orange phase and faded into brown, and the grass on the side of the road was stiff and dead.

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#100. Scientific advancement carries risk. It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine - they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone's sake.

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