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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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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
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Maximillian Michael Brooks
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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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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 can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
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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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Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
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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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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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If you believe you can accomplish everything by cramming at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining
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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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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 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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I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.
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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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There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
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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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There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.
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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
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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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You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
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