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

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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.

deceit fire lying

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.

boulders agonizing choices

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.

childhood water two

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.

world-war-z tvs people

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared t... by Max Brooks

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts

monsters rose heart

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

zombie protection school

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor. by Max Brooks

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

wit-and-humor coping-mechanisms use

You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

boulders mountain choices

That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.

feet doors thinking

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

stupidity believe people

Use your head; cut off theirs. by Max Brooks

Use your head; cut off theirs.

halloween zombie cutting

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

procrastination rain believe

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective fac... by Max Brooks

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

giving facts way

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.

what-if cutting people

[...]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.

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.

giants epic war

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be. by Max Brooks

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

matter answers might

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.

bored soul thinking

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.

perception war america

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will al... by Max Brooks

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

walking-dead humans matter