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A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
Neurosis
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
Kenneth Tynan
Living
Past
Sense
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
Time
Drama
Theatre
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
Kenneth Tynan
Past
Play
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Kenneth Tynan
Art
Work
Artist
Understanding
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
Kenneth Tynan
Disease
Hollywood
Oysters
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Kenneth Tynan
Complexity
Effort
Play
Writing
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
Kenneth Tynan
Women
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
Kenneth Tynan
Content
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Kenneth Tynan
Car
Man