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Thomas Keneally quotes: And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

Thomas Keneally quotes: The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.

The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.

Thomas Keneally quotes: The List is Life.", Schindler's List

The List is Life.", Schindler's List

Thomas Keneally quotes: I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

Thomas Keneally quotes: It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

Thomas Keneally quotes: And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Thomas Keneally quotes: Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves.

Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves.

Thomas Keneally quotes: Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

Thomas Keneally quotes: Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.

Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.

Thomas Keneally quotes: But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Thomas Keneally quotes: Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

Thomas Keneally quotes: I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

Thomas Keneally quotes: Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

Thomas Keneally quotes: All right, Herr Stern, if God made man in His image, which race is most like him? Is a Pole more like him than a Czech?

All right, Herr Stern, if God made man in His image, which race is most like him? Is a Pole more like him than a Czech?

Thomas Keneally quotes: The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

Thomas Keneally quotes: Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't

Thomas Keneally quotes: The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

Thomas Keneally quotes: Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Thomas Keneally quotes: Coitus is random, children are definite.

Coitus is random, children are definite.

Thomas Keneally quotes: He manifested a resolution which amounted to sternness.

He manifested a resolution which amounted to sternness.

Thomas Keneally quotes: Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

Thomas Keneally quotes: The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.

The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.

Thomas Keneally quotes: And I was very interested in the priesthood.

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

Thomas Keneally quotes: In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

Thomas Keneally quotes: The truest crime remaining to him to commit was the waste of love. It should be bequeathed, as land is.

The truest crime remaining to him to commit was the waste of love. It should be bequeathed, as land is.

Thomas Keneally quotes: And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.