"But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although……" — Thomas Keneally
"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 and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century."
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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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Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
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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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And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
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