Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. Antonio Tabucchi More Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi More Quotes From Antonio Tabucchi My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself. Antonio Tabucchi politics jobs looks 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 lists rights doubt I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. Antonio Tabucchi mixing circles television History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate. Antonio Tabucchi bigs animal history The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. Antonio Tabucchi mixtures civilization interesting I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. Antonio Tabucchi claims 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 body intellectual soul 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 running museums thinking My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. Antonio Tabucchi engagement book people I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. Antonio Tabucchi contradiction people 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 expression mean country Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. Antonio Tabucchi dream desire jobs 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 robots doubt people The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. Antonio Tabucchi creating character mean 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 minority half war world I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves. Antonio Tabucchi mirror face look people
