8 May: Peter Benchley Quotes

Peter Benchley, US author best known for the novel Jaws was born on this date in 1940. 10 quotes from him:

1. 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.
2. I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either Sharks or Dinosaurs.
3. Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
4. I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
5. You're gonna need a bigger boat.
6. Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.
7. Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
8. We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory – it's theirs.
9. We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.
10. It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

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