Thomas Keneally

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

— Thomas Keneally

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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. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

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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. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

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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. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

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Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

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

— Thomas Keneally

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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. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

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I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. ↗

— 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

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