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I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
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Maximillian Michael Brooks
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Of all the weapons discussed in this book, nothing is more important than your primary firearm. Keep it cleaned, keep it oiled, keep it loaded, keep it close. With a cool head, steady hand, and plenty of ammunition, one human is more than a match for an army of zombies.
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That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.
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When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
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Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.
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There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
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Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
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Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.
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[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.
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. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.
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I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.
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Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.
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Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
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They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.
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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
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After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.
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Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.
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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
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I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.
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