Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

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

Antonio Tabucchi

• Army

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

Antonio Tabucchi

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

Antonio Tabucchi

• People

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.

Antonio Tabucchi

• Culture

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

• World
• War

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

Antonio Tabucchi

• People
• Life

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

Antonio Tabucchi

• Life
• Teacher
• Literature

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

Antonio Tabucchi

• Democracy

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

Antonio Tabucchi

• Job

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Antonio Tabucchi

• Interesting