Thomas Keneally

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#life #life

The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#dreams #death

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

#australians #because #believe #dirty #go

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

— Thomas Keneally

#design #heavily #i #i think #know

And I was very interested in the priesthood. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#interested #priesthood #very

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

#craft #folly #mind #novel #screen

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

#could #i #knew #left #manage

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

— Thomas Keneally

#belong #brat #fights #gang #gangs

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. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#australia #coming #coming home #extent #home

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

#because #become #being #children #dangerous