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Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
As a writer, Ive always been interested in others. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
But I dont think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you dont have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
But democracy isnt a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when Im given a shirt thats too clean, one thats completely white, I immediately start having doubts. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - were again preparing the mass killing of this minority. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
I dont go for people who lead full and satisfying lives. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
I dont have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I dont have the slightest doubt about human rights. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
I dont know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. Theyre forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
I dont want to promote my own image either. I dont like going on television or mixing in literary circles. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
I live quietly at home among my family and friends. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Ive always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Its the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Its very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Literature for me isnt a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
My books are about losers, about people whove lost their way and are engaged in a search. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
No, Im happy to go on living the life Ive chosen. Im a university teacher and I like my job. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but theyre more energetic - they arent robots. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
There are some fundamental values its impossible to be wrong about. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
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