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One Quotes by Kenneth Tynan
- How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become…
- Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.
- What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
- Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
- A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
- If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.
- 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…
- 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.
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