Antonio Tabucchi

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

— Antonio Tabucchi

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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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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. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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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

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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

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When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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