It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
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No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.Antonio Tabucchi
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
Antonio Tabucchi
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
Antonio Tabucchi
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
Antonio Tabucchi
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
Antonio Tabucchi
We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.
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