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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.
Max Brooks
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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
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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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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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Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
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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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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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