Max Brooks Quotes

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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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  Lying, Fire, Deceit

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.166, Broadway Books

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• My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

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  Coping Mechanisms, Use, Wit And Humor

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• The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts

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  Heart, Rose, Monsters

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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.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Doors, Feet

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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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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  Choices, Boulders, Agonizing

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.116, Broadway Books

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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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  Believe, People, Stupidity

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.32, Broadway Books

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• Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

  Max Brooks

  Path, Sometimes, World War Z

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, Crown Pub

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

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  Believe, World War Z, Ability

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.160, Broadway Books

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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.

  Max Brooks

  Two, Water, Childhood

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.145, Broadway Books

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

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  Keys, Survival, Victory

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.13, Broadway Books

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• To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

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  Answers, Might, Matter

  Max Brooks (2010). “World War Z”, p.200, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

  Max Brooks

  People, Tvs, World War Z

  "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War". Book by Max Brooks, 2007.

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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.

  Max Brooks

  Believe, Army, Media

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.122, Broadway Books

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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.

  Max Brooks

  Book, Army, Hands

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.41, Broadway Books

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

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Matter, Remember

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.87, Broadway Books

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• There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

  Max Brooks

  Lying, Kind, World War Z

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, Crown Pub

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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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  Memories, Zombie, Trying

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• Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

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  Race, Humanity, World War Z

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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.

  Max Brooks

  Fear, Real, Thinking

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.249, Broadway Books

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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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  Choices, Mountain, Boulders

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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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  Race, Class, Zombie

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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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  School, Zombie, Protection

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.79, Broadway Books

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• There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

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  Giving, Way, 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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  Cutting, People, What If

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

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  Vacuums, Secrecy, Paranoid

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.45, Broadway Books

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