I was partial to tragedy in my youth. Before experience taught me that life is quite tragic enough without my writing about it.
— Ammon (Burgess Meredith)
13 seconds sound clip from the Clash of the Titans (1981) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:14:02 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- The sands of time are running like quicksilver.
- We'll be across these mountains tomorrow, by nightfall, nearing the Isle of the Dead.
- And then, Medusa. I wrote a play about her long ago.
- Medusa. She was priestess to Aphrodite.
- Yes, and a most beautiful woman by all accounts.
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