#ra

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. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#australians #because #believe #dirty #go

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#belong #brat #fights #gang #gangs

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. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#australia #coming #coming home #extent #home

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

— Thomas Keneally

#australia #back #catholicism #come #company

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. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#being #catholic #catholic school #early #even

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. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#being #believe #came #did #eccentric

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#am #art lies #democrat #democratic #heart

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#democratic #dictatorship #fig #hide #leaves

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#endures #every #freedom #generation #greater

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#each #generation #learn #must #something