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Peter Benchley


American
May 8, 1940
Author
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Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.


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


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Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.


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Tags: Almost Fall Rise
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Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.


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It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.


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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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I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
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Tags: Me Think Who
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
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Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.
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A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.
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There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.
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Tags: People Out Been