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Thomas Michael Keneally, AO is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

✵ 7. October 1935
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Famous Thomas Keneally Quotes

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”

Thomas Keneally book Schindler's Ark

Source: Schindler's List

“The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.”

Thomas Keneally book Schindler's Ark

Source: Schindler's List

“In times like these, he said, it must be hard for the churches to go on telling people that their Heavenly Father cared about the death of even a single sparrow. He'd hate to be a priest, Herr Schindler said, in an era like this, when life did not have the value of a packet of cigarettes. Stern agreed but suggested, in the spirit of the discussion, that the Biblical reference Herr Schindler had made could be summed up by a Talmudic verse which said that he who saves the life of one man, saves the entire world.”

Thomas Keneally book Schindler's Ark

The references are to Matthew 10:29 (or Luke 12:6) and Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:8 (37a).
Source: Schindler's Ark (1982), Ch. 2.

“The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.”

Thomas Keneally book Schindler's Ark

Source: Schindler's Ark (1982), Ch. 31.

“Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.”

Thomas Keneally book Schindler's Ark

Prologue.
Schindler's Ark (1982)

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