Max Brooks Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.”
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“That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.”
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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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“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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“Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.”
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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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“[...]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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“There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.”
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“We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.”
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“Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.”
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“You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler”
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“America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception†because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.”
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“But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.”
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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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“But there were alternative media outlets. Oh sure, and you know who listens to them? Pansy, overeducated know-it-alls, and you know who listens to them? Nobody! Who's going to care about some PBS-NPR fringe minority that's out of touch with the mainstream? The more those elitist eggheads shouted "The Dead Are Walking," the more most real Americans tuned them out.”
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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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“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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“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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“Of all the weapons discussed in this book, nothing is more important than your primary firearm. Keep it cleaned, keep it oiled, keep it loaded, keep it close. With a cool head, steady hand, and plenty of ammunition, one human is more than a match for an army of zombies.”
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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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“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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“A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles.”
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“The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.”
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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 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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“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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“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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“We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.”
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