Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
Quotes to Explore
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The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
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If she chuses to set free one or two of my slaves she is to have full power to do so.
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As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.
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... no diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.
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Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand.
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Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
