“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”
Ann Brashares The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
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“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
Appreciation, Postscript (1889)
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essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer 1839–1894Related quotes
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