The buttocks are the most ...

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
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 Kenneth Tynan

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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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 Kenneth Tynan
The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.
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 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 corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.
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 Kenneth Tynan
Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.
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Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
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 Kenneth Tynan