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Thomas Keneally

Australian Novelist

Born: Oct 7, 1935

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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 believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know. Thomas Keneally

Good You Joke Hell Believe Tell Dirty Like Know Liked Because Got Go Go To Hell Australia Australians Taste Going

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school. Thomas Keneally

School Strongly Given Scene Had Part Since Importance Particularly Schooling Sport Catholic Catholic School Felt Nonetheless Australia Very Being Wanted Placed Even Marginalised Early

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. Thomas Keneally

Church Parents Become Duty Resources Those Definitely Having Writer Priest Felt Educational Up Wanted Used Now

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

World Church Dramatic Both Very Literature Found

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

You Church Design Think Sexuality Mortal Know Sins Repressed

And I was very interested in the priesthood. Thomas Keneally

Priesthood Very Interested

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. Thomas Keneally

Try Mind Folly Write Contract Craft Screen Novel

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

Love Good Thought Cricket Mystery Never Sort Any

My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his. Thomas Keneally

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy. Thomas Keneally

Religion Strong Remember Sense Medicine Sick Asthma Strong Sense Proper Both Had Particularly Because Frequently Being Patriarchy Which Then Treatment

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular. Thomas Keneally

Christian Though Brothers About Were Um Certainly Found Muscular

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