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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel -- nothing at all.
Source: A New Kind of Country, 1978.
-- Dorothy Gilman, (Jun 25 1923-2012), US mystery novelist; She created the geriatic sleuth, Mrs. Pollifax, in a mystery series for young people, e.g., Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish, 1990.