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Virginia Postrel has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…
• The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for…
• Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work…
• The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a…
• Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
• Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear…
• Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
• Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

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