Thomas Keneally Quotes

Thomas Keneally — Australian Novelist born on October 07, 1935,

Thomas Michael "Mick" Keneally, AO is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture... (wikipedia)

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 was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

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

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.

Thomas Keneally Quotes

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