Top 60 Thomas Keneally Quotes (2024 Update)
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Thomas Keneally Quote: “And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can’t believe that they’re going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.”

51. “And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can’t believe that they’re going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “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 atrociously to indigenes, were baffled by the determination with which Europe returned to the frenzies of racial myth. Nice boys and not-so-nice boys took up the theme, put on the uniform, did the dirty work.”

52. “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 atrociously to indigenes, were baffled by the determination with which Europe returned to the frenzies of racial myth. Nice boys and not-so-nice boys took up the theme, put on the uniform, did the dirty work.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “There were many indications from history, Frank proposed, that threatened races generally outbred the genocides. The phallus was faster than the gun.”

53. “There were many indications from history, Frank proposed, that threatened races generally outbred the genocides. The phallus was faster than the gun.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “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.”

54. “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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Thomas Keneally Quote: “I believe we can discern the difference of a wise man momentarily giving way to intemperate emotion,” said my father, “and a fool reveling in malice.” My.”

55. “I believe we can discern the difference of a wise man momentarily giving way to intemperate emotion,” said my father, “and a fool reveling in malice.” My.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “From November 1st, said Hans Frank, it would be possible for the Germans of Cracow to breathe ‘good German air’, to walk abroad without seeing the streets and lanes ‘crawling with Jews’.”

56. “From November 1st, said Hans Frank, it would be possible for the Germans of Cracow to breathe ‘good German air’, to walk abroad without seeing the streets and lanes ‘crawling with Jews’.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “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. “Virtue” in fact is such a dangerous word that we have to rush to explain;.”

57. “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. “Virtue” in fact is such a dangerous word that we have to rush to explain;.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “The moral universe had not so much decayed here. It had been inverted, like some black hole, under the pressure of all the Earth’s malice – a place where tribes and histories were sucked in and vaporized, and language flew inside out.”

58. “The moral universe had not so much decayed here. It had been inverted, like some black hole, under the pressure of all the Earth’s malice – a place where tribes and histories were sucked in and vaporized, and language flew inside out.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “We do not forget the sorrows of Egypt, we do not forget Haman, we do not forget Hitler. Thus, among the unjust, we do not forget the just. Remember Oskar Schindler.”

60. “We do not forget the sorrows of Egypt, we do not forget Haman, we do not forget Hitler. Thus, among the unjust, we do not forget the just. Remember Oskar Schindler.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “She yawns for men and not with her mouth. She weeps for men and not with her eyes. She drinks men down, she is a cave for men.”

61. “She yawns for men and not with her mouth. She weeps for men and not with her eyes. She drinks men down, she is a cave for men.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “He was Sudeten German – Arkansas to their Manhattan, Liverpool to their Cambridge.”

62. “He was Sudeten German – Arkansas to their Manhattan, Liverpool to their Cambridge.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “He was hissed on the streets of Frankfurt, stones were thrown, a group of workmen jeered him and called out that he ought to have been burned with the Jews.”

63. “He was hissed on the streets of Frankfurt, stones were thrown, a group of workmen jeered him and called out that he ought to have been burned with the Jews.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “The urge to throw up his excellent breakfast was, he sensed, to be suppressed, for he suspected it meant that all his cunning body was doing was making room to digest the horrors of Kraksua Street.”

64. “The urge to throw up his excellent breakfast was, he sensed, to be suppressed, for he suspected it meant that all his cunning body was doing was making room to digest the horrors of Kraksua Street.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “Righteous Person, this title being a peculiarly Israeli honor based on an ancient tribal assumption that in the mass of Gentiles, the God of Israel would always provide a leavening of just men.”

65. “Righteous Person, this title being a peculiarly Israeli honor based on an ancient tribal assumption that in the mass of Gentiles, the God of Israel would always provide a leavening of just men.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “From late 1943, there is a story about Schindler which runs among the survivors with the electric excitement of a myth. For the thing about a myth is not whether it is true or not, nor whether it should be true, but that it is somehow truer than truth itself.”

66. “From late 1943, there is a story about Schindler which runs among the survivors with the electric excitement of a myth. For the thing about a myth is not whether it is true or not, nor whether it should be true, but that it is somehow truer than truth itself.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “And so she went on, galloping through thickets of diphthongs, searching – I was sure – for the sound that would not disgrace her husband, and failing at every turn.”

67. “And so she went on, galloping through thickets of diphthongs, searching – I was sure – for the sound that would not disgrace her husband, and failing at every turn.”

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Thomas Keneally Quote: “Oskar has made it his business to know the full face of the system, the rabid face behind the veil of bureaucratic decency.”

68. “Oskar has made it his business to know the full face of the system, the rabid face behind the veil of bureaucratic decency.”

— Thomas Keneally

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