Words matter. These are the best Antonio Tabucchi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
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.
I don’t go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
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.
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.
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
There are some fundamental values it’s impossible to be wrong about.
My books are about losers, about people who’ve lost their way and are engaged in a search.
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.
Literature for me isn’t a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
Like a blazing comet, I’ve traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
It’s very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
As a writer, I’ve always been interested in others.
I’ve always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
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.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they’re more energetic – they aren’t robots.
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.
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.
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
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.
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
I don’t want to promote my own image either. I don’t like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
