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"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."
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"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."
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"The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced."
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"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
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"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."
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"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist."
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"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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"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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"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."
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"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael."
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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 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."
Want
"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
Christian
"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."
Society
"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
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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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