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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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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
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Maximillian Michael Brooks
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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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You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
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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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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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Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.
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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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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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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 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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Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
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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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. . . 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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Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
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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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Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.
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There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.
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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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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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There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
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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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