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Kenneth Tynan Quotes

Type:
Critic Quotes
Category:
English Critic Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 2, 1927
Date of Death:
July 26, 1980
Nationality:
English
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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.
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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