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Kenneth Tynan Quotes
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Type: Critic Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Date of Birth: April 2, 1927 Date of Death: July 26, 1980 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Kenneth Tynan Related Authors: William Hazlitt Charles Lamb Aleister Crowley Walter Pater Lytton Strachey Clive Bell John Churton Collins |
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
Kenneth Tynan A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. Kenneth Tynan 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. Kenneth Tynan A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. Kenneth Tynan A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. Kenneth Tynan 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. Kenneth Tynan Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. Kenneth Tynan Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. Kenneth Tynan The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. Kenneth Tynan What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. Kenneth Tynan |
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