Gilbert Highet

Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Gilbert Highet?

  • → Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
  • → I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
  • → What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
  • → These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
  
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