Kenneth Tynan Short Quotes

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A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you're keeping.

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Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

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Welles is at once as abnormal and as natural as Niagara Falls.

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Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

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What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

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She shows herself to the audience like the Host to the congregation.

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I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.

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We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

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If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

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'Sergeant Pepper'—a decisive moment in the history of Western Civilization.

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Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

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There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

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I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

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As Virgilia in Coriolanus she yearns so hungrily that I longed to throw her a fish.
Of Claire Bloom in 1955

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When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

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A play... is basically a means of spending two hours in the dark without being bored.

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They say The New Yorker is the bland leading the bland. I don't know if I'm bland enough.

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She has sex but no positive gender. Her masculinity appeals to women and her sexuality to men.

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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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Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

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Of Polish director Roman Polanski:
The four foot Pole you wouldn't want to touch with a ten foot pole.

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A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

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Forty years ago he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since.
Of Noël Coward

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A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

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Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom and I will show you the makings of a dramatist.

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Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

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The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

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It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

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