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I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Sadness

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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
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