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1. "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." ~ Max Brooks
2. "The monkey didn't help matters any. He was sitting on top of the microbus, just watching the undead plunge to their end. His face appeared so serene, so intelligent, as if he truly understood the situation. I almost wanted him to turn to me and say, 'This is the turning point of the war! We've finally stopped them! We're finally safe!' But instead his little penis popped out and he peed in my face." ~ Max Brooks
3. "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
4. "That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one." ~ Max Brooks
5. "[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." ~ Max Brooks
6. "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." ~ Max Brooks
7. "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.'" ~ Max Brooks
8. "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." ~ Max Brooks
9. "If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget." ~ Max Brooks
10. "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." ~ Max Brooks
11. "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 themeslves? By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from a history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it?" ~ Max Brooks
12. "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." ~ Max Brooks
13. "...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." ~ Max Brooks
14. "During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concernssuch as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by theemperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts ofzombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. Thisobscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of anexecuted Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks." ~ Max Brooks
15. "Los monstruos que salían de sus tumbas no son nada comparados con los que llevamos dentro del corazón." ~ Max Brooks
16. "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." ~ Max Brooks
17. "...and that bastard Breckinridge Scott, yes, the Phalanx king, still hiding like a rat in his Antarctic Fortress of Scumditude.--Arthur Sinclair" ~ Max Brooks
18. "Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation." ~ Max Brooks
19. "Because Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist." ~ Max Brooks
20. "No tienes que ser el puto Sun Tzu para saber que la verdadera batalla no consiste en matar, ni siquiera en herir al otro, sino en asustarlos lo suficiente para que lo deje." ~ Max Brooks
21. "Use your head; cut off theirs." ~ Max Brooks
22. "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 of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells." ~ Max Brooks
23. "Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spentthinking clearly is never time wasted." ~ Max Brooks
24. "There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope." ~ Max Brooks
25. "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." ~ Max Brooks
26. "I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them." ~ Max Brooks
27. "When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no." ~ Max Brooks
28. "Whatever bro, tell it to the whales" ~ Max Brooks
29. "Fear sells." ~ Max Brooks
30. "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." ~ Max Brooks
31. "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
32. "To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be." ~ Max Brooks
33. "This is the only 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." ~ Max Brooks
34. "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" ~ Max Brooks
35. "The dead walk among us." ~ Max Brooks
36. "Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." ~ Max Brooks
37. "Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack." ~ Max Brooks
38. "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.'" ~ Max Brooks
39. "I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'" ~ Max Brooks
40. "You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all." ~ Max Brooks
41. "You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'." ~ Max Brooks
42. "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." ~ Max Brooks
43. "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." ~ Max Brooks
44. "what are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product" ~ Max Brooks
45. "Oh C'mon. Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? 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. You can't stop the rain. All you can do is just build a roof that you hope won't leak, or at least leak on the people who are gonna vote for you." ~ Max Brooks
46. "But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past?" ~ Max Brooks
47. "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." ~ Max Brooks
48. "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." ~ Max Brooks
49. "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." ~ Max Brooks
50. "Who knows what we could have accomplished if we had only chucked the politics and come together as human bloody beings." ~ Max Brooks
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