"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."

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"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."

Travel

"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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"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."

Hell

"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

"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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"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael."

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"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."

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"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."

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"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."

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"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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