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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

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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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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