Kenneth Tynan Quotes

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
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.
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

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Kenneth Tynan
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Critic
BirthDate
02 April, 1927
DeathDate
26 July, 1980
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