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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
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Nothing
Bleak
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Future
Past
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