"And I definitely wanted to be a writer,……" — Thomas Keneally
"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 the church and my parents to become a priest."
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32 Quotes by Thomas Keneally
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I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.
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I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on…
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Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her…
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Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
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But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my…
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Coitus is random, children are definite.
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I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
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And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal…
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And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a…
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You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and…
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In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always…
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And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't…
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