Max Brooks Quotes

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• The dead walk among us.
• Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
• Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.
• 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…
• Use your head; cut off theirs.
• Organize before they rise!
• 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…
• 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…
• When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
• 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…
• I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
• I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.
• Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
• 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.
• Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
• Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

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