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The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel

American Writer

Born: Jan 14, 1960

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Lie, World, Imagination, Dramatic, Unnatural, Distorted, Tells, Something, Never, Mere, True, Tales, Judgments, Audience, Deaths, Effect, Effects, Histories, Itself, Happened, Place, Theater, Requires, Special, Special Effects, Even

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