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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
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Manhattan borough
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Maximillian Michael Brooks
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Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.
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Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.
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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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Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.
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Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
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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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. . . 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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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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You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
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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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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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Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.
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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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Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.
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Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.
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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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When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy...
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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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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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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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