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Antonio Tabucchi

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

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

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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"I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams."

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"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep."

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"You have to dig deep in yourself to dream. You have to close your eyes to see."

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"Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!"

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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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"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."
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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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"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."
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"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."
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"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."
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"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."
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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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"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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