"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."

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Source : "Antonio Tabucchi, Elegiac Italian Writer, Dies at 68" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. April 4, 2012.

Antonio Tabucchi

#Jobs Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?”
“God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.”
“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargainingâ€¦. We demand this fraud be stopped.”
“Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.”
“My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.”
“Develop a built-in bullshit detector.”
“I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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