If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no inter…

Flannery O'Connor
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If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, p.199, Macmillan
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