Thomas Keneally Quotes

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• I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.
• I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground…
• Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her…
• Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
• But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work…
• Coitus is random, children are definite.
• I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
• And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
• And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
• You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made…
• In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.
• And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to…
• And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
• And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to…
• But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.
• Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in…
• But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off…
• It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.
• It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of…
• Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

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