"I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history."

-- Elizabeth Kostova

#Thinking Quotes #Historical Quotes #Important Quotes

“I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.”
“She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.”
“A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.”
“Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.”
“How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!”
“I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.”
“If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.”
“All my favorite artists are downtempo - Portishead, Burial, a lot of 1990s trip-hop. Some people are saying that I'm trying to help with the trip-hop revival that's possibly going on, but I'm not aware of other artists that are necessarily doing that. But if they are, that's fantastic. It's a great medium of electronic music. There's a lot of emotion - it's good for soundtracking a late-night drive.”

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