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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."
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"I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos."
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"Don't we all want what's best for each other?"
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"I want to be all used up when I die."
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"If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter."
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"It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important."
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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
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"I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up."
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"When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters."
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"Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening."
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"It is important for us consciously to say, or claim, only the things we want rather than what we do not want."
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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."
Power
"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."
Being
"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."
Home
"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
"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."
Time
"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."
Writing
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
Church
"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."
Religion
"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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