"Chomsky's writings are 'classics' in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
— Steven Pinker (The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language)

"It is quite possible–overwhelmingly probable, one might guess–that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology"
— Noam Chomsky
“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.”
— Noam Chomsky

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