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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Life
Noisy
Passings
Excitement
Passing
Saws

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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.
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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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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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