Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ~ 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. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

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

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

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

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

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

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

Personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

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. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

It's a theory advanced by two French philosophers who are also psychologists, they hold that we do not have a single soul but a confederation of souls guided by a ruling ego, and every now and then this ruling ego changes, so that although we establish a norm it isn't a stable norm, but a variable one. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

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

Everything that I have known
You'll write to me to remind
Me of, and likewise I shall do
The whole past I'll recount to you ~ Friedrich Holderlin

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

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

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

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

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. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

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. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

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

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. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

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. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

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

I live quietly at home among my family and friends. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

Of course, no rocks in Los Angeles. You had to buy fucking rocks. Sick place, this, where you couldn't find a rock to break a window. ~ C.D. Reiss

Everyone has an opinion when it comes to immigration - strong, intense opinions. ~ Jose Antonio Vargas

There was a kid that had five brothers and sisters, and the family was missing for like five days. I was watching TV, they [found each other] and now they're in San Antonio. So I bought them a little apartment in San Antonio. But I'm doing stuff like that all over. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything. ~ Antonio Porchia

We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception. ~ Antonio Damasio

Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences. ~ Ricardo Antonio Chavira

The fact of the matter is, this country is not going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are we supposed to do with them? What are we supposed to do with these kids? ~ Jose Antonio Vargas

There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

But hate is too much like love: Neither of them is a matter of choice ~ Antonio Iturbe

Every time, I reaffirm in myself that the more comfortable you are, the less you are creating. You have to feel a little bit of pain in the creation. ~ Antonio Banderas

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer. ~ Antonio Porchia

I play a lot of basketball and racquetball, as they're both great for your feet and hand eye coordination. Other drills can help as well, such as simply catching a football in distant positions from different heights and velocities. ~ Antonio Cromartie

Didn't care if I wasn't paid for working after school for seven months teaching a 9th grader to read, but when he finally could, priceless! The best times in my life were when I went way beyond my paygrade to service students in need. ~ Ace Antonio Hall

He (Antonio Machado) was old, weary and ill, and he no longer believed in Franco's defeat. He wrote 'This is the end; any day now Barcelona will fall. For the strategists, for the politicians, for the historians, it is all clear: we have lost the war. But in human terms, I am not so sure. Perhaps we have won. ~ Javier Cercas

One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name. ~ Jose Antonio Vargas

And when the day arrives for the final voyage
and the ship of no return is set to sail,
you'll find me aboard, traveling light,
almost naked, like the children of the sea. ~ Antonio Machado

Don't let the way people are, disrupt your day. Understand them for who they are, the good & the bad, but keep a bond with Serenity. ~ Ace Antonio Hall

Present continuously becomes past, and by the time we take stock of it we are in another present, consumed with planning the future, which we do on the stepping-stones of the past. The present is never here. We are hopelessly late for consciousness. ~ Antonio R Damasio

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. ~ Antonio Porchia

I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I know what I want, and where to go. ~ Antonio De Oliveira Salazar

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. ~ Antonio Porchia

In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me. ~ Antonio Gates

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy. ~ Antonio Damasio

The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe that in terms of an individual's development they are followed by mechanisms of secondary emotions, which occur once we begin experiencing feelings and forming systematic connections between categories of objects and situations, on the one hand, and primary emotions, on the other. ~ Antonio Damasio

Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer. ~ Antonio Perez

While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives. ~ Antonio Guterres

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. ~ Antonio Porchia

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. ~ Antonio Porchia

You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own. ~ Antonio Porchia

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio. ~ Melanie Griffith

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head. ~ Antonio Banderas

Some things become such a part of us that we forget them. ~ Antonio Porchia

I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth. ~ Antonio De Mendoza

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then. ~ Antonio Banderas

It's not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That's my job. ~ Jose Antonio Vargas

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity. ~ Jose Antonio Vargas

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost. ~ Antonio Porchia

Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objective possibilities exist for people not to die of hunder and that people do die of hunger, has its importance, or so one would have thought. But the existence of the objective conditions, of possibilities or of freedom is not yet enough: it is necessary to "know" them, and know how to use them. ~ Antonio Gramsci

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. ~ Antonio Porchia

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious. ~ Ace Antonio Hall

SEBASTIAN
But, for your conscience?

ANTONIO
Ay, sir; where lies that? if 'twere a kibe,
'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not
This deity in my bosom ~ William Shakespeare

Manifesting from self-Affirmations are like planting seeds in the ground. First, the seeds germinate. Then they sprout roots, and then they poke their flower chutes through the ground, showing the world that they are about to blossom and displaying to themselves the ability to break through resistance once the foundation, or the roots have been strengthened. ~ Ace Antonio Hall