Quotes by Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Tynan

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

Cities

Immediacy

Past

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

Beautiful

Inspirational

Life

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.

Criticism

Drama

Theatre

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

Art

Cities

Play

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

Keeping Secrets

Neurosis

Sanity

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

Drama

Moving

Past

A useful word previously unknown to me: ‘ergophobia’, meaning ‘fear or hatred of work’. At last I can define myself in one word.

Hatred

Lasts

One Word

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

Guilt

Hero

Innocence

All of life is more or less what the French would call s’imposer, to be able to create one’s own terms for what one does.

Able

Doe

Life

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.

Communication

Cutting

Writing

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Able

Art

Art Is

Artist

Beautiful

Believe

Bergman

Body

Buttocks

Car

Casting

Censorship

Cherish

Cities

Communication

Connections

Country

Couple

Creative

Criticism

Critics

Cry

Cutting

Despair

Dichotomy

Different

Divorce

Doe

Doubt

Drama

Effort

Ends

England

Essentials

Fear

Feelings

Felt

Fists

Food

Forever

Gifted

Good Times

Gregarious

Guilt

Hands

Hatred

Hero

Hollywood

Home

Husband

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Quotes by Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Tynan

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

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.

A useful word previously unknown to me: ‘ergophobia’, meaning ‘fear or hatred of work’. At last I can define myself in one word.

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

All of life is more or less what the French would call s’imposer, to be able to create one’s own terms for what one does.

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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