I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.
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Letter to I.L. Leontev (March 22, 1890)Anton Chekhov
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
Bertolt Brecht
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
Ludwig von Mises
Reductionism solitary human identity has far-reaching consequences. Evoked an illusion to divide individuals into categories extraordinarily rigid can be used to instigate clashes between groups. (Chapter IX, p. 180)
Amartya Sen
The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with the substance of their records of our Lord's life. They did not have to respect their actual words, as they would if they were transcribing the works of Thucydides or Plato.
Frederic G. Kenyon
In other words, the fact that the criterion we happen to use has a fine ancestry of highbrow statistical theorems does not justify its use. Such justification must come from empirical evidence that it works.
Walter A. Shewhart
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