"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."

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Source : 'Tynan Right and Left' (1967) foreword

Kenneth Tynan

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“The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.”
“I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.”
“What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?”
“That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.”
“Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.”
“The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.”
“Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.”
“Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.”

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