Max Brooks Quotes - Page 3

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• You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

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  Sleep, Night, Trying

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• If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

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  Writing, Night, People

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• You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

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  Country, War, Winning

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• The dead walk among us.

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  Zombie, Walks

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

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• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

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  Thinking, Iraq, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.

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  Wall, Book, Flames

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.186, Broadway Books

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• 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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  Running, Thinking, Night

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

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• Organize before they rise!

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  Organize

  "'The Zombie Survival Guide'". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 30, 2003.

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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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  Block, Fire, Doors

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.47, Broadway Books

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• 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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  Book, Red, Firsts

  "What College Kids Can Learn From 'The Zombie War'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 10, 2012.

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• When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

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  Dark, Thinking, Knights

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

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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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  Rain, Reality, Years

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.11, Broadway Books

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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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  Morning, Fighting, People

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

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• 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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  Writing, Zombie, Stories

  "'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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• 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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  Kids, America, Storm

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• Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

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  Zombie, Nerd, Fiction

  "What College Kids Can Learn From 'The Zombie War'". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 10, 2012.

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• 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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  Guy, Zombie, Minorities

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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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  Ghouls, Humanity, Zombie

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

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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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  Hands, Ass, Throat

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.266, Broadway Books

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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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  Zombie, Able, Protection

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.59, Broadway Books

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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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  Hate, War, Men

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• 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.

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  Real, Media, Npr

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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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  Real, Sky, Soul

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.194, Broadway Books

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• Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.

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  Looking For Love, Asking, Body

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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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  Moving, Cutting, Hair

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