Kenneth Tynan Quotes
10 Kenneth Tynan quotes:
"Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood."
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"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening."
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"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
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"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
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"What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober."
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"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."
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"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."
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"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."
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"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."
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"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past"
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