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"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
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"You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing."


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"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."


"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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"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."


"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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"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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