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Thomas Keneally Quotes

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

Thomas Keneally

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: October 7, 1935

Topics

Think Design Church You Know Sins

When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.

Life Family Marriage Money Man Born

My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

Time School High School Old High

We have a really cool relationship because I talk to my son like he's my little homie. I try to be the cool dad, like, 'What's up? How many girls you have?'

Son Relationship Cool You Try Talk

Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration.

Good Writing Inspiration Tour

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

Education Happiness Mom Magic Poor

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

Great Together America Tragedy Come

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Boss First Secretary Thing Types

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Father Doing Dying Started Feed

There was a period in my life when I would say no, and I didn't know why I was saying no. In most cases, it was out of fear, just trying to be safe. Because 'no' will keep you safe. 'No' won't draw attention to you. But all the cool things are on the other side of 'Yes, And.'

Ali Farahnakian

Life Fear Cool Saying My Life You

The true story of how my husband, Stephen, and I exchanged our first 'I love you's' - chronicled in my 2012 memoir 'Brain on Fire' - occurred deep in a hallucinatory psychotic episode outside a crowded Maplewood, NJ, restaurant.

Susannah Cahalan

Love Fire Brain Husband Story Deep

Ever wonder why billionaires always need more and more money? It's a power trip.

Sebastian Roche

Power Money Wonder Why More Need

I don't know if this is the same for everybody, but for me, sometimes I get depressed, where I wake up and I can feel a change. Something went wrong, and it's almost like you feel tingly in a way where you know something is off, and from that point forward, this anxiety kicks in where you just worry and worry... this cyclical, terrible nature.

Nature Change Me Wake Up Forward

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