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The List is Life.
Thomas Keneally / Novelist
Lists
Schindler
Schindler's List
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Coitus is random, children are definite.
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Children
Definite
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And I was very interested in the priesthood.
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Priesthood
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Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
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Save The World
Schindler's List
World
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I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.
Thomas Keneally / Novelist
Art
Wisdom
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Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
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Justification
Schindler's List
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It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.
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Art
Abandon
Ambition
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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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Art
Cricket
Mystery
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The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.
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Lists
Lying
Margins
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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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Church
Dramatic
Literature
World
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Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.
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Brother
Christian
Found
Brothers
Muscular
Um
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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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Brat
Fighting
Gang
Used
Belong
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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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Folly
Mind
Trying
Writing
Contract
Craft
Screen
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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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Mother
Names
Michael
Thomas
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And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
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Design
Church
Repressed
Sexuality
Thinking
Mortal
Sins
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Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
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Finance
People
Tragic
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The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.
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Principles
Refusal
Surrender
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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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Australia
Catholic
Catholicism
Grotesque
Landscape
Questionable
Always Sometimes Way
Sometimes Way Always
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Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.
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Mother
Narrators
Writing
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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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Manage
Celibate
Priest
Ultimately
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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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Becoming
Delighted
Lasts
Ordination
Steps
Apart
Deacon
Ordained
Priest
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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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Art
Wisdom
Children
Memories
All Writers
Apologise
Outer
Playground
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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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Home
Australia
Coming Home
Pluralism
Practice
School
Sectarianism
Sorry
Time Home Your
Time Home School
Coming
Extent
Took
Uniform
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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.
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Church
Educational
Parent
Resources
Priest
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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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Asthma
Medicine
Patriarchy
Sick
Treatment
Particularly
Frequently
Proper
Strong Sense
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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.
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Australia
Believe
Dirty
Go To Hell
Taste
Australians
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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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Kids
Believe
Eccentric
Flesh
Temperament
Upbringing
Weird
Suppose
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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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Brother
Eight
Months
Time Mother Me
Time Me Father
Ah
Younger
Arrived
Time Father Me
Thus
Um
Wondering
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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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Australia
Dog
Glasgow
Integrated
Ireland
Liverpool
Sectarianism
Ships
Unleashed
Dogs
Existed
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It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.
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Peace
Earth
Lasts
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He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.
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Men
May
Years
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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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Sports
Australia
Catholic
Catholic School
Given
Importance
Scene
School
Early
Sport
Particularly
Marginalised
Nonetheless
Placed
Strongly
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Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her breasts enabled a flying man good hold and emotions of heady safety. . . . Steering her peasant tits he bounded off stars.
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Men
Air
Stars
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But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.
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Nice
Past
Reading
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It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which hung on Emilie's wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved.
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Jesus
Passion
Wall
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