"It is not too fantastic to say that……" — Thomas Keneally
"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 Jesus which hung on Emilie's wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved."
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Thomas Keneally
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32 Quotes by Thomas Keneally
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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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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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