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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.
Kenneth Tynan
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Kenneth Tynan
Age: 53 †
Born: 1927
Born: April 2
Died: 1980
Died: July 26
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Kenneth Peacock Tynan
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I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.
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In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.
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Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.
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Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.
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Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
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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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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.
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There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.
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All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication and in this there is something always a little mad.
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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
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The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.
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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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The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.
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Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.
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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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The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
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