Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi

About Antonio Tabucchi:

Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.
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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.

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

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

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

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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

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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

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

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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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAntonio Tabucchi
  • DescriptionWriter and literary scholar
  • BornSeptember 24, 1943
  • DiedMarch 25, 2012
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Translator
  • AwardsAustrian State Prize For European Literature; Commander Of The Order Of Prince Henry