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"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."
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"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
"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."
"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."
"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."
"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."
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