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Fred Zinnemann

"Dialogue is a necessary evil."

Fred Zinnemann, American Director
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"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"

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"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."

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"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."

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