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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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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
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Maximillian Michael Brooks
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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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I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.
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You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
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They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.
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With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?
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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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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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Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.
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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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Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
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When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
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I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.
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I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.
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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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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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