"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search."

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Antonio Tabucchi

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Engagement Quotes

“Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.”
“It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history....”
“Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.”
“For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.”
“Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.”
“Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”
“I loved 'Freaks and Geeks.' I don't know a better show.”
“Not taking risks ultimately leads to failure.”

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