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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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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
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Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.
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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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Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
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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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Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.
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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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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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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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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
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Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
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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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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
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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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. . . 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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The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority.
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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.
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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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Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
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