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Italian Writer September 23, 1943 – March 25, 2012

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Antonio Tabucchi quote: "No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a..."
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
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion....I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough. Antonio Tabucchi
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
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 life too. Antonio Tabucchi
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
Antonio Tabucchi quote: "I live quietly at home among my family and friends."
I live quietly at home among my family and friends. Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi quote: "personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's..."
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences. Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi quote: "My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way..."
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. Antonio Tabucchi
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
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
Antonio Tabucchi quote: "Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which..."
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. Antonio Tabucchi
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
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
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
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

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