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

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Antonio Tabucchi

#Dream Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I would want to acknowledge is that perhaps the tension, the crucial tension, isn't necessarily between the view of bullfighting as a tradition versus as an art form, but between the values inside the ring and the values outside the ring.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.”
“What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.”

Source : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.22, Profile Books
“Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.”
“The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.”
“I want to show that I can pitch well and get along with the guys in the locker room.'”
“Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.”
“I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.”

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