Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.
Thomas Keneally
Thomas was my true name but ...
Quotes from the same author
It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.
Thomas Keneally
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
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
The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.
Thomas Keneally
