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Thomas Keneally Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated Apr 2024
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You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.
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Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.
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Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.
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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.
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So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.
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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.
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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.
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In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.
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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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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 the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
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But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.
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But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.
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Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.
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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.
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And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
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And I was very interested in the priesthood.
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And I think my s..uality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
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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 dir.. joke, you know.
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And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
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