Max Brooks Short Quotes

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Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

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

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When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

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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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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

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Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

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The opening bombardment took out at least three-quarters of them. Only three-quarters.

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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

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Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

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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 that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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[...]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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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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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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They teach you how to resist the enemy, how to protect your mind and spirit. They don't teach you how to resist your own people, especially people who think they're trying to help you see the truth.

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