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Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally
Australian Novelist
Born: Oct 7, 1935
Australia Church Definitely Found Mother You
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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
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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
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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
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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
And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left. Thomas Keneally
Though Could Priest Knew Ultimately Um Left Manage Celibate Want Really
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. Thomas Keneally
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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
Time Me You People Mother Father Months Brother Some Had He Thus Know Arrived His Years Um Left Than Wondering Eight After Younger
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
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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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