Books Quote by Antonio Tabucchi Download Open image “personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.” — Antonio Tabucchi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Conscience Don't trust Ethics Literature People
“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase our skepticism… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.” — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person. — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“But one of the great tragedies of life is that you cannot force people to read what they ought, as good as it might… — Robert Boyczuk Copy Share Image
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
