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There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
Author
Comedian
Screenwriter
Television Actor
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Maximillian Michael Brooks
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Lying
Hope

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There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.
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You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.
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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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I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.
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Remember no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.
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Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.
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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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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
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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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Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.
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Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
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Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.
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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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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority.
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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 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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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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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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