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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
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Maximillian Michael Brooks
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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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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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Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
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Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, More brains. There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.
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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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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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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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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
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...because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to normal, once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were.
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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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. . . 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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I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.
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Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
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