Peter Benchley Quotes

• No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.

  Peter Benchley

  Sharks, Villain, Victim

  Peter Benchley (1995). “Ocean planet: writings and images of the sea”, ABRAMS

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• Si el hombre no aprende a tratar los océanos y la selva tropical con respeto, el hombre se extinguirá.

  Peter Benchley

  Rain, Ocean, Men

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• 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.

  Peter Benchley

  Past, Looks, Seems

  Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws”, p.108, Fawcett

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• El océano es el único entorno ajeno y potencialmente hostil del planeta en el que solemos adentrarnos sin pensar en los animales que lo habitan, cómo se comportan, cómo se mantienen y cómo nos perciben. No conozco a nadie que se adentre en la jungla de Malasia armado únicamente con un bañador, un tubo de crema bronceadora y un libro, y sin embargo es precisamente así como nos acercamos a los océanos.

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Book, Animal

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

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  Monsters, Fiction, Knows

  Peter Benchley (2008). “Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea”, p.49, Yearling

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

  Peter Benchley

  Sharks, Target, Grudge

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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.

  Peter Benchley

  Running, Fear, Sea

  Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws”, p.81, Fawcett

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

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  Believe, Men, Sharks

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Animal

  Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws”, p.104, Fawcett

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• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  Peter Benchley

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hopeful

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• Vas a necesitar un barco más grande.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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

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  Ocean, Sharks, Predator

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• Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

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  Fall, Tides, Reputation

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• Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Would Be, Earth

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

  Peter Benchley

  Water, Safe

  "Jaws 2" film's tagline, www.imdb.com. June 16, 1978.

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• Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

  Peter Benchley

  Survival, Fascination, Preparedness

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• Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.

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  Crazy, Sharks, Evil

  Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws 2-Book Bundle: Jaws and Shark Trouble”, p.111, Random House

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• Nunca me ha hecho daño una criatura marina, salvo las medusas y los erizos de mar.

  Peter Benchley

  Hurt, Sea, Jellyfish

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

  Peter Benchley

  Thinking, Fiction, Influence

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

  Peter Benchley

  Writing, Order, Sweat

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• Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.

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  Dark, Moon, Careers

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• 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.

  Peter Benchley

  Niños, Hombres, Dos

  Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws 2-Book Bundle: Jaws and Shark Trouble”, p.111, Random House

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

  Peter Benchley

  Sharks, Years, White

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

  Peter Benchley

  Believe, Inanimate Objects, Blame

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• He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.

  Peter Benchley

  Lying, Baghdad, May

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