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People have always needed art: but why have they needed it? And what shaped the forms by which they satisfied their need? … In the arts form tends to be conservative, and content to be revolutionary; it is novelty of content that precedes, demands and imposes novelty of form.

— Kenneth Tynan Tynan Right and Left (1967)

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We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

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

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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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No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

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