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Antonio Tabucchi
Italian
Writer
Born:
Sep 24
,
1943
Died:
Mar 25
,
2012
About
Because
Job
Life
People
World
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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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