- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dramatic
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
- Priesthood
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I was very interested in the priesthood.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
- Priest
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dogs
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Priest
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.
- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020