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I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?
— Cecily Strong
I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
— Antonio Tabucchi
Everything that I have knownYou'll write to me to remind
Me of, and likewise I shall do
The whole past I'll recount to you — Friedrich Holderlin
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
— Antonio Tabucchi
To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
— Antonio Tabucchi
Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.
— Jim Butcher
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.
— Antonio Tabucchi
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
— Antonio Tabucchi
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
— Antonio Tabucchi
Art is the right hand of Nature.
— Friedrich Schiller
We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.
— Antonio Tabucchi
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
— Antonio Tabucchi
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
— Antonio Tabucchi
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
— Antonio Tabucchi
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
— Antonio Tabucchi
I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
— Antonio Tabucchi
As the day you get married is as important as the years of courtship, so the journey to success is as important as success itself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
— Antonio Tabucchi
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
— Antonio Tabucchi
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
— Homer
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
— Antonio Tabucchi
Don't look at me in that tone of face.
— Robin Kaye
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
— Antonio Tabucchi
As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
— Antonio Tabucchi
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
— Antonio Tabucchi
Personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.
— Antonio Tabucchi
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
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
A man may be humble through vainglory.
— Michel De Montaigne
