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Antonio Tabucchi

"As a writer, I've always been interested in others."

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"That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out."

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"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
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"I live quietly at home among my family and friends."
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"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
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"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."
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"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."
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"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."
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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."
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"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search."
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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
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"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
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