Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.
Antonio Tabucchi

Start, White, Clean

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
Antonio Tabucchi

Dreams, Job, Literature

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
Antonio Tabucchi

Democracy, Means, State

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 up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.
Antonio Tabucchi

Live, Find, Others

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
Antonio Tabucchi

Job, Doubt, Perfection

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
Antonio Tabucchi

Lives, Full, Lead

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.
Antonio Tabucchi

Human, Doubt, Rights

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
Antonio Tabucchi

Life, Find, Others

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 be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
Antonio Tabucchi

Talent, Genius, Three

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
Antonio Tabucchi

Once, While, Stand

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
Antonio Tabucchi

Full, Tormented, Drawn

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
Antonio Tabucchi

Made, Choices, Useful

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.
Antonio Tabucchi

Against, Means, Weak

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

Political, Doubt, Perfect

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
Antonio Tabucchi

Others, Writer, Interested

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

Someone, Fact, Situation

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
Antonio Tabucchi

War, After, Again

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
Antonio Tabucchi

Either, Television, Image

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
Antonio Tabucchi

Family, Home, Live

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
Antonio Tabucchi

Insomnia, Prefer

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

History, War, Forget

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
Antonio Tabucchi

War, Country, Born

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

Feelings, Find, Sense

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

Life, Teacher, Point

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
Antonio Tabucchi

Lost, Losers, Books

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Writer

Born: September 23, 1943

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