Antonio Tabucchi Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.”

“It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.”

“Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.”

“I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.”