Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

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• I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
• I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
• No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
• I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
• 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…
• There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
• As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
• My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
• 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 to…
• Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
• It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
• Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
• The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
• 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…
• Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.
• My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
• 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…
• 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…
• I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
• Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

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