Australian - Novelist | October 7, 1935 -
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 thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.
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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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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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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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Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.
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Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.
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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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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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