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Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi
Italian Writer
Born: Sep 24, 1943
Died: Mar 25, 2012
About Because Job Life People World
Related authors: Bernardo Bertolucci Bruno Bettelheim Carlo Collodi Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Luciano De Crescenzo Niccolo Machiavelli
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
People First Resources Weak Kind Economic Civilizations Nomadic Xenophobia Because Cultures Itself Targets Lack Subsistence Against Land Means Aggression
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. Antonio Tabucchi
Fear Imagination Nights Blazing Like Comet Infinite Spaces
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. Antonio Tabucchi
Democracy State Constant Perfection Improved Means Vigilance
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. Antonio Tabucchi
Dreams Me Job Something Involves Literature Which Fantasy Desires
I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia. Antonio Tabucchi
Insomnia Prefer
I live quietly at home among my family and friends. Antonio Tabucchi
Home Family Live Friends Family And Friends Quietly Among
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
Life People Sometimes Others Find More Robots Exhausting Oppressive Lots Than Energetic Doubts
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
Political Example Doubt System Religious No Doubt Admit About Perfect For Example Doctrine Aesthetic Imposed Intellectual Political System Going Room Doubts Fundamentalist
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. Antonio Tabucchi
You Genius Three Think Talent Particular Reach Because Conclusions Hand Any Prediction Certain Elements Four
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. Antonio Tabucchi
Once Claim Take While Stand Right
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. Antonio Tabucchi
War Me History People World Remember First Carnage Worst Vividly About Tend First World First World War Forget Human Stories Which Grandfather Human History World War
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. Antonio Tabucchi
War World Country Born Invasion Second World War Second World War
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
Feelings Sense Broader Would Would-Be Find More Outrage Countries Which Means European European Countries Many Novel Expression Applicable Symbolic
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 My Life Point Point Of View Like Course Existential Being Literature View
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. Antonio Tabucchi
Salt Civilization Mixture Any Interesting

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