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Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author and screenwriter. He is known for the bestselling novel Jaws and co-wrote its subsequent film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark.

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There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

Fear, Nothing, Running, Sea

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Fall, Regularly, Reputation, Reputations, Tides

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

Hurt, Jellyfish, Sea, Urchins

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Forest, Man, Men, Ocean, Oceans, Rain

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

Back, Safe, Thought, Water

Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses―except for hunger―they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one.

Animal, Beautiful, Bird, Dream, Everything, Mysterious

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

Sharks, White, Years

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

Believe, Implicitly, Men, Sharks, World

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

Believe, Blame, Blaming, Inanimate, Inanimate Objects, Objects

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

Future, Looks, Past, Present, Seems, Time

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

Babe, Internet, Woods

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

Earth, Life, Ocean, Oceans, Would Be

The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.

Children, Enemy, Killed, Men, See, Two

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

Apex, Ocean, Predator, Sharks, Take

The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.

Alien, Book, Environment, Ocean, Thinking

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Discipline, Order, Solitude, Sweat, Writing

I dive as much as I can.

Dive, I Can

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

Grudge, Grudges, Sharks, Target

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Fiction, Influence, Think, Thinking, Widely, Writer

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

Fiction, Know, Knows, Largely, Monsters

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