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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• Thomas Keneally:

  And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

• Thomas Keneally:

  And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians

• Thomas Keneally:

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

• Thomas Keneally:

  And I was very interested in the priesthood.

• Thomas Keneally:

  And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract i

• Thomas Keneally:

  And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though

• Thomas Keneally:

  Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectariani

• Thomas Keneally:

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

• Thomas Keneally:

  But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stoppe

• Thomas Keneally:

  I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the ch