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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Kind
Foothold
Upstream
Rocky
Urgency
Fight
Takes
Fighting
Every
Undercurrent

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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.
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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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