Quotes by Thomas Keneally

About Thomas Keneally:

Thomas Michael ("Mick") Keneally 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.
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Vina e un vis, mila e singura realitate.

Thomas Keneally

Even among Sedlacek's own small cell, his Viennese anti-Nazi club, it was not imagined that the pursuit of the Jews had grown quite so systematic. Not only was the story Schindler told him startling simply in moral terms: one was asked to believe tha...

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No olvidamos las penurias de Egipto, no olvidamos a Haman, no olvidamos a Hitler. Así como no olvidamos a los injustos, no olvidamos a los justos. Recordemos pues a Oskar Schindler.

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Oskar cumplía treinta y siete años, y acababa de abrir una botella de coñac. Sobre su escritorio había un telegrama de una planta de montaje de armamentos situada cerca de Brno. Decía que las granadas antitanques de Oskar estaban tan mal hechas ...

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Quien salva una sola vida, salva al mundo entero.

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El problema es que se recuerda esta lista con una intensidad tal que su mismo ardor confunde los hechos. La lista era un bien absoluto. La lista era la vida. Más allá de sus márgenes se abría el abismo.

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The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.

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High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, the authority, to make the racial rules. We great unwashed of the outer world, on the coasts of new continents, though we might ourselves have behaved a...

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

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But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Armenian genocide, the injustice of dispossession in the Americas and Australia? That everyone should be reduced to silence? To pretend that the Holocau...

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Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpect...

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Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person.

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The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

Thomas Keneally

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Thomas Keneally

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

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And I was very interested in the priesthood.

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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.

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And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameThomas Keneally
  • DescriptionAustralian novelist
  • BornOctober 7, 1935
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionWriter; Playwright; Novelist; Actor
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of Australia; Miles Franklin Literary Award