Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchiwas an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 September 1943
CountryItaly
Antonio Tabucchi quotes about
mean perfection democracy
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
thinking hands four-elements
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.
dream jobs desire
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
civilization interesting salt
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
claims
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
war people grandfather
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.
people literature dont-trust
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.
soul intellectual body
A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.
jobs looks politician
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
fundamentals impossible values
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
life teacher jobs
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
philosophy literature fantasy
Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.
girl moon night
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.