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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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"If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew."
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"I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire."
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"People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really want to fear something, they should be fearing separation from God, the supposedly more comforting alternative to a literal Hell. For separation from the authorship of love, mercy, and goodness is the ultimate torture. If you think a literal Hell sounds too bad, you are very much underestimating the pain of being absolutely, wholly separated from the goodness while exposed to the reality of the holiness of God."
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"Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified."
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"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
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"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
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"I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect."
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"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
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"A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes."
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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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"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
"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."
Thought
"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
"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael."
Family
"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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