"He was one of those men who, even……" — Thomas Keneally
"He 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."
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Thomas Keneally
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32 Quotes by Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally has 32 quotes on this site.
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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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O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because…
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I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.
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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they…
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The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these…
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[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes…
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I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed,…
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[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man,…
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In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk.…
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