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dba571c
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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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scepticism
weakness
zombie
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Max Brooks |
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10cbf48
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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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lies
truth
max-brooks
world-war-z
falsity
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Max Brooks |
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c248e12
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The 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." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear o..
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Max Brooks |
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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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fear
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Max Brooks |
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34242b3
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Use your head; cut off theirs.
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Max Brooks |
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a0ba852
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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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revenge
shakespeare
prospero
tempest
mercy
zombies
school
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Max Brooks |
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a3d1b4e
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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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Max Brooks |
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8d3352f
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There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.
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Max Brooks |
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6e1b210
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Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.
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Max Brooks |
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6a9eb5b
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1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.
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Max Brooks |
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ee2c052
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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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Max Brooks |
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Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.
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Max Brooks |
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cc1487f
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Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.
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Max Brooks |
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4ba7aea
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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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sun-tzu
fight
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Max Brooks |
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65d03f6
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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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responsibility
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Max Brooks |
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b9f7bfb
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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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zombie
procrastination
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Max Brooks |
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15c4957
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When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
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Max Brooks |
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47b5365
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To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.
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Max Brooks |
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015c40d
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Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
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Max Brooks |
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327f69c
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This is the time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our physical survival, but for the survival of our civilization. We don't have the luxury of old-world pillars. We don't have a common heritage, we don't have a millennia of history. All we have are the dreams and promises that bind us together. All we have...is what we want to be.
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Max Brooks |
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234e9d0
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They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.
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Max Brooks |
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39dd85a
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Fear sells.
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Max Brooks |
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2aa3f21
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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
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max-brooks
world-war-z
zombie
science-fiction
zombies
technology
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Max Brooks |
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aec979f
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If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.
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zedhead
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Max Brooks |
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278137e
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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-zombie-survival-guide
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Max Brooks |
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21f53a7
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Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.
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Max Brooks |
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f2fe96b
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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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Max Brooks |
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3af820c
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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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nothing
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Max Brooks |
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da0d99b
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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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spin
news
media
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Max Brooks |
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ec958ef
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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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Max Brooks |
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There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
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Max Brooks |
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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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war
americans
victory
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Max Brooks |
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1fd334a
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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 |
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Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity."
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maturity
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Max Brooks |
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79ac1c1
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The official report was a collection of cold, hard data, an objective "after-action report" that would allow future generations to study the events of that apocalyptic decade without being influenced by the "human factor." But isn't the human factor what connects us so 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..
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Max Brooks |
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7b358fd
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The highest distinction is service to others.
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helping-hand
service
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Max Brooks |
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5aa0d54
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Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.
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war
economy
economics
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Max Brooks |
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069cc0b
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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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pride
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Max Brooks |
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0b61e36
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Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.
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Max Brooks |
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207fe16
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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.
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Max Brooks |
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2d4d563
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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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Max Brooks |
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12e8124
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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
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Max Brooks |
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b339697
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It is my fault, and the fault of everyone of my generation. I wonder what the future generations will say about us. My grandparents suffered through the Depression, World War II, then came home to build the greatest middle class in human history. Lord knows they weren't perfect, but they sure came closest to the American dream. Then my parents' generation came along and f***ed it all up - the baby boomers, the "me" generation. And then you ..
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Max Brooks |
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b9962e7
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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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the-zombie-survival-guide
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Max Brooks |