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Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: italian
Birth: September 24, 1943 - March 25, 2012

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Army You First Magazines Newspapers

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

Stanley Hauerwas

Philosophy Humanity Profound Whose

Indian women love to dress up like princesses. In India, people still go to the market to buy fabrics, garments are made-to-order, and friends come with you to the fittings.

Sonam Kapoor

Love Women Dress People Friends You

Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.

Rodney Crowell

Memory Writing You Know True Kid

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

Ronda Rousey

Survive Know Everyone Instinct Even

Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

Mohnish Pabrai

Work Change View Problem You Enemy

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

Jon Anderson

Happy Learn You Know Want Sound

Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

Diane von Furstenberg

Nature Animal Leaf You Bold Animals

When I first signed on to play Tommen, I started speculating about when he was going to die. I sort of knew he wouldn't be the last one on the throne, but Tommen doesn't really deserve to have his throat slit or his stomach jabbed. In a way, Tommen died the way he was - it was a peaceful death.

Dean-Charles Chapman

Death Die Peaceful Play Way Deserve

Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.

Delphine Arnault

Heart Beautiful Together Brother

Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for.

Dean Ornish

Life Live Day Long You Living

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Cheryl Strayed

Life Mom Whole Sort Died Ended

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Anne Frank

Character Power Lie Greatness People