"That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster."
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"Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead."
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"I'm interested in how things are put together, and that's more interesting to me than just regular shows, even though I like The Walking Dead."
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"Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead."
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