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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
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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."

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

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

"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."

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