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In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.

— Kenneth Tynan Profiles (1990)

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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.

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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.

Tynan Right and Left (1967)

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)

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