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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Bleak
Except
Future
Past
Nothing

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Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
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My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
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