Thomas Keneally
Born: 10-06-1935
Thomas Keneally is an acclaimed Australian author, best known for his novel "Schindler's Ark," which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and inspired the film "Schindler's List." Born in 1935, Keneally's works often explore historical and ethical themes. With a career spanning over five decades, he has written numerous novels, non-fiction works, and plays, establishing himself as a prominent figure in contemporary literature.
Book summaries for books written by Thomas Keneally
Quotes
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
This list... is an absolute good. The list is life.
I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!
The war brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad.
It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says, 'Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.'
Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
For a few hours of his life, Oskar Schindler was a good man.
This is the story of two men, one who is evil and the other who is good.
The principle was sound: to lose one’s job, or one’s life, for the sake of principle seemed a foolish thing.
They fear us because we have the power to kill arbitrarily.
Some of us may live, but the rest of us will surely die.