82 Quotes by Thomas Keneally

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.

All right, Herr Stern, if God made man in His image, which race is most like him? Is a Pole more like him than a Czech?

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.

We all have to expect to lose something in times like these.

Herr Bosch was purple nosed; the oxygen which by rights belonged to the veins of his face had for years gone to feed the sharp blue flame of all that liquor.

I thought I’d definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

In this city he kept house with his German mistress and maintained a long affair with his Polish secretary.

It was a great gift which the National Socialist Party had given to the men of the SS, that they could go into battle without physical risk, that they could achieve honor without the contingencies that plagued the whole business of being shot at.

Years later, one woman from those lines, remembering the morning, would face a German television crew and attempt to explain it. “He was our father, he was our mother, he was our only faith. He never let us down.