Top 100 Max Brooks Quotes
#1. Knowledge is only part of the fight for survival.
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#2. It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.
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#3. Personally, I could have cared less.
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#4. You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
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#5. Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
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#6. Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles.
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#7. Survival is the key word to remember - not victory, not conquest, just survival.
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#8. What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.
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#9. 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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#10. the only Cuba I could ever imagine. That is, until the dead began to rise.
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#11. 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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#12. The book of war, the one we've been writing since one ape slapped another, was completely useless in this situation. We had to write a new one from scratch.
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#13. There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. In a radiated planet, the walking dead might be the only creatures left "alive." We
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#17. The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts
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#18. The highest distinction is service to others.
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#19. I'm addicted to murder, and that's about the nicest way I can put it. You might say that's not technically true, that since they're already dead I'm not really killing. Horseshit; it's murder, and it's a rush like nothing else. Sure,
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#20. What are you, your fucking mother?" ~ Mets *SkyWatcher* World W Z
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#21. When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
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#22. 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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#23. Happy but isn't the human factor what connexus a deeply to our past will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves.
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#24. Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.
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#25. The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. To even call them "units" is a joke. These were just mobs of men in uniforms, clerks
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#31. And that bastard Breckinridge Scott, yes, the Phalanx king, still hiding like a rat in his Antarctic Fortress of Scumditude.
Arthur Sinclair
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#32. 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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#33. Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.
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#34. Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.
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#35. How do you effectively separate the infected from the others? How
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#36. I can't tell you if this is the right path; the future is too mountainous to see to far ahead ... Only 'the gods' know what awaits us at its end.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times.
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#39. Armies perfect the art of fighting the last war just in time for the next one.
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#40. Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so ... ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shit, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during dirty bomb scares.
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#41. 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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#42. I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.
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#43. And, let us not forget, the culmination of nearly five thousand years of continuous Chinese history.
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#44. Public support must be husbanded as a finite national resource. It must be spent wisely, sparingly, and with the greatest return on your investment.
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#45. This space station [Yang Liwei] was little more than a giant Orbital Denial Station. If those charges were to detonate, the debris ... any future space launch would be grounded for years. It was a "Scorched Space" policy. "If we can't have it, neither can anyone else.
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#46. [He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words again, "imagine what could be accomplished if the human race would only shed its humanity.
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#47. 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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#48. Why would I want to get depressed by watching TV? I could do that just by stepping on the scale every morning.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.
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#54. North Koreans were indoctrinated from birth to believe that their lives were meaningless, that they existed only to serve the State, the Revolution, and the Great Leader.
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#55. Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water - don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.
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#57. Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
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#58. It wasn't perfect, but it would do for a few seconds, long enough to hole up and wait for the shooting to die down. Only it didn't. Pistols, shotguns, and that clatter you never forget, the kind that tells you someone has a Kalashnikov.
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#59. The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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#60. 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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#61. I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.
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#62. They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.
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#63. That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one.
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#64. You can't stop the rain. All you can do is just build a roof that you hope won't leak, or at least won't leak on the people who are gonna vote for you.
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#65. We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.
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#66. PARNELL AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, TENNESSEE
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#67. Our country only exists because people believed in it, and if it wasn't strong enough to protect us from this crisis, then what future could it ever hope to have?
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#68. I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.
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#69. Good morning, lovely Meryl." She clicked her tongue. "You better find some other roll to butter up, Mr. Brooks. It may be early, but my allowance of saturated fats is all used up for the day.
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#70. Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
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#71. You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
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#72. Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
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#73. 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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#74. [Kwang Jingshu was arrested by the MSS and incarcerated without formal
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#75. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine.
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#76. But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past?
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#77. 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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#78. I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'
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#79. Only one could have foreseen this, and I don't believe in him anymore.
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#80. What about the FDA? Please, are you serious? Back then the FDA was one of the most underfunded, mismanaged organizations in the country. I think they were still high-fiving over getting Red No. 218 out of M&Ms.
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#81. 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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#82. I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.
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#83. There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.
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#85. Only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.
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#86. There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.
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#87. I'm not going to say the war was a good thing. I'm not that much of a sick fuck, but you've got to admit that it did bring people together.
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#88. When this engineer, Sergeant Mukherjee, grabbed me by the arm
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#89. To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.
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#90. 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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#91. Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it.
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#92. 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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#93. Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.
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#94. But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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#95. We lost a hell of a lot more than just people when we abandoned them to the dead.
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#96. What are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product
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#97. When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.
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#98. I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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#99. We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."-World War Z
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#100. Zombies are so popular. There's a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, 'Hey, I can make a buck off of this.' The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame.
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