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1. "He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore." ~ Peter Benchley
2. "Come up fish. Come to Quint." ~ Peter Benchley
3. "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
4. "Brody felt a shimmy of fear skitter up his back. He was a very poor swimmer, and the prospect of being on top of—let alone in—water above his head give him what his mother used to call the wimwams: sweaty palms, a persistent need to swallow, and a ache in his stomach—essentially the sensation some people feel about flying. In Brody's dreams, deep water was populated by slimy, savage things that rose from below and shredded his flesh, by demons that cackled and moaned." ~ Peter Benchley
5. "The fish might well have disappeared already, but Brody wasn't willing to gamble lives on the possibility: the odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high." ~ Peter Benchley
6. "You're gonna need a bigger boat." ~ Peter Benchley
7. "I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs." ~ Peter Benchley
8. "Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides." ~ Peter Benchley
9. "I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal." ~ Peter Benchley
10. "I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me." ~ Peter Benchley
11. "I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet." ~ Peter Benchley
12. "I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins." ~ Peter Benchley
13. "If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct." ~ Peter Benchley
14. "Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks." ~ Peter Benchley
15. "Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth." ~ Peter Benchley
16. "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
17. "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..." ~ Peter Benchley
18. "The great fish moved silently through the night water." ~ Peter Benchley
19. "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." ~ Peter Benchley
20. "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

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La gente si accorge solo di quando te ne vai; se resti non se ne accorgono. E' come quando si sente davvero un ronzio continuo solo dopo che ha smesso."
Author: Aimee Bender

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