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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
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
My wife has to be the worst cook. I've got the only dog who begs for alka-seltzer.
— Rodney Dangerfield
And y'all scared I can tell That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell. — Jadakiss
Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
— Michael Cunningham
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
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
No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.
— Bob Parr
There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.
— Anasazi Foundation
A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
— Martin Van Buren
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
— Antonio Tabucchi
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
— 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
It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.
— Mother Teresa
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
— William James
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
— Antonio Tabucchi
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 was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
— Antonio Tabucchi
As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
— Antonio Tabucchi
