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Kenneth Tynan
"The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art." --
Source : "Tynan Right and Left : Plays, Films, People, Places and Events" by Kenneth Tynan, (p. 432), 1967.
Kenneth Tynan
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“Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last night, when withdrawal began.”
“My future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.”
“Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.”
“I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.”
“Although it may seem like it, life will never give you more than you can handle. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy; in fact, quite the opposite.”
“The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.”
“I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.”
Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.
“EWW. I'm at lunch, the woman at the table next to me is breast feeding her baby with no coverup.”
