H. L. Mencken Quotes

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

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• The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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