Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

Italian writer and academic

Lived from: 1943 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 24 september 1943

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  • Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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  • Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
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  • My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
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  • My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
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  • No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
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  • People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
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  • Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
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  • The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
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  • The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
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  • There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
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  • Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
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