“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.”

—  Jean Kerr

In Finishing Touches (1973), Act III, Kerr borrows this line (changing "we" to "you") from Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook (1963), ch. 5
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Irish-American author and playwright 1922–2003

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