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Kenneth Tynan

English Critic

Born: Apr 2, 1927

Died: Jul 26, 1980

Artist Critic Journalist Know Man Past

Related authors: Aleister Crowley Charles Lamb Charlie Brooker Clive Bell John Churton Collins Terry Eagleton Walter Pater William Hazlitt

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

Women Drunk Other Sees Sober

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

Work Art Strong Journalist Understanding Comprehensible Beyond Himself Makes Private Private Thing Forever Precise Artist Straight Product Works Thing Need

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. Kenneth Tynan

You Secret Neurosis Know Keeping

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. Kenneth Tynan

Disease Hollywood Pearl

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

Further He Content Audience His Fist Hand Goes Palm

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. Kenneth Tynan

Lose Past Sense Living Immediacy City Am Urgent Whose

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. Kenneth Tynan

Past Static Through Moves Dynamic Novel Play Thing

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