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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D. H. Lawrence
Artist, Literature, Never Trust
Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.