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He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

Jim Goad

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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Though your major media kept smacking me upside the head with the word multicultural, you goddamned Australians are the most racist bunch of people I've ever seen in my life.
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As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.
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I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell its breath - they have a choice: 1) Fall to pieces 2) Reassemble yourself and keep walking.
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My hatred is diamond-hard.
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Liberating is a gay word, so let's phrase it this way: I know everything about me and still manage to be good friends with myself, so nothing anyone says that's truthful about me ever bothers me.
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Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on hate-speech laws with frightening eagerness.
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I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.
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The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.
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I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.
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I believe human sexuality is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something ennobling and empowering, to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as sex workers and god
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When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.
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When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.
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the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.
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Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.
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If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.
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Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.
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The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.
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Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake of that sunken ship, the last thing I sought was a relationship or, heaven forbid, marriage.
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In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.
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I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.
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