"I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?"

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Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.

— Hershel Shanks