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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.

— 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.

Tynan Right and Left (1967)

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

Profiles (1990)

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.

Tynan Right and Left (1967)

I doubt if there are very many rational people in this world to whom the word "fuck" is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden.

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
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