Thomas Keneally Quotes

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• Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

  Thomas Keneally

  World, Schindler's List, Save The World

  Schindler's List, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

  Thomas Keneally

  Art, Ambition, Abandon

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• The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

  Thomas Keneally

  Principles, Surrender, Refusal

  Thomas Keneally (2013). “Schindler's List”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

  Thomas Keneally

  Schindler's List, Justification

  "Fictional character: Oskar Schindler". "Schindler's List", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Wisdom, Art, Children

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• The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.

  Thomas Keneally

  Lying, Lists, Margins

  "Schindler's Ark". Book by Thomas Keneally, 1982.

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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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Mother, Writing, Narrators

  Thomas Keneally (2013). “Schindler's List”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Lasts, Becoming, Steps

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• The List is Life.

  Thomas Keneally

  Lists, Schindler, Schindler's List

  Schindler's List, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Men, Years, May

  Thomas Keneally (1993). “Schindler's List”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Dog, Australia, Ships

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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

  Believe, Kids, Flesh

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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

  Australia, Catholic, Landscape

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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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Writing, Mind, Trying

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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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Peace, Earth, Lasts

  Thomas Keneally (1982). “Schindler's list”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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

  Thomas Keneally

  Church, Literature, World

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• Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

  Thomas Keneally

  People, Finance, Tragic

  Thomas Keneally (2008). “Searching for Schindler”, Hodder & Stoughton

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

  Thomas Keneally

  Wisdom, Art

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• Coitus is random, children are definite.

  Thomas Keneally

  Children, Definite

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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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Fighting, Gang, Used

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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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Thinking, Design, Church

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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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Jesus, Wall, Passion

  Thomas Keneally (1982). “Schindler's list”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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

  Thomas Keneally

  Christian, Brother, Found

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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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Sports, School, Australia

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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

  Mother, Names

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