Antonio Tabucchi quotes - page 2

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

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

Antonio Tabucchi

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

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

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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

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

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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

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.

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Antonio Tabucchi

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Photo: Rebeca Yanke from Madrid, España, CC BY-SA 2.0

Occupation: Italian Writer
Born: September 24, 1943
Died: March 25, 2012
Quotes count: 33

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