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If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Even
Worn
Years
Stone
Make
Stones
Would
Rain
Angry
Minutes
Suffering
Enough

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