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Antonio Tabucchi

"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

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"Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!"

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"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."
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