And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“She yawns for men and not with her mouth. She weeps for men and not with her eyes. She drinks men down, she is… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“If Frau Rasch, in the last and fullest days of her husband’s power in Brno, had idly—during a party, say; a musical recital at… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“He [Rabbi Menasha Levartov] was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“We humbly beg your kind applause,” murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“In the mind of a true snob there are certain limited criteria to denote the value of human existence. Jimmie's criteria were: home, hearth,… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
![“He [Rabbi Menasha Levartov] was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.” quote by Thomas Keneally](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2aa/thomas-keneally-10113_peace_he-rabbi-menasha-levartov-was-one-of-tho_342049.jpg)
