“ 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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“ 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 unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful. ”
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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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“ 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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“ 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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“ 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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“ 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 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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“ 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. ”
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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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“ So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy. ”
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“ But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school. ”
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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. ”
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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. ”
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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. ”
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“ My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his. ”
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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. ”
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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. ”
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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. ”
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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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“ And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. ”
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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. ”
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