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.
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. - Thomas Keneally
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
- Thomas Keneally
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 th… - Thomas Keneally
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 th…
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
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.
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. - Thomas Keneally
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf. - Thomas Keneally
The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.
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… - Thomas Keneally
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…
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. - Thomas Keneally
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility … - Thomas Keneally
He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility …
It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible. - Thomas Keneally
It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.
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