“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, wife, land. Those who possessed these had beatitude unchallengable. Other men had accidental, random life. Nothing… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
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 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)
