Quotes by Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

Church

Literature

World

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Church

Design

Thinking

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Fighting

Gang

Used

Coitus is random, children are definite.

Children

Definite

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

Mother

Narrators

Writing

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.

May

Men

Years

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 who become the dangerous writers.

Art

Children

Wisdom

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

Art

Cricket

Mystery

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

Australia

Catholic

Landscape

It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

Earth

Lasts

Peace

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Quotes by Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Coitus is random, children are definite.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

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.

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 who become the dangerous writers.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

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