At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at ev… - James Thurber

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At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

James Thurber

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James Grover Thurber (8 December 1894 – 2 November 1961) was an American humorist and cartoonist.

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Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

Después de todo ¿dónde no hay infierno?

I trust that this collection of pieces will prove that I ave not become, at sixty six going on fifty, as one friend of mine gallantly put it, completely lugubrious.

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