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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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Manhattan borough
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Maximillian Michael Brooks
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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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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 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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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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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
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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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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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There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
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Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
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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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Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.
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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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Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.
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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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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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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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When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
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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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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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