"I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?"

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People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.

— Flannery O'Connor