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The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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I tend not to hang with 'the crowd' because I believe that at any given moment in history, the crowd is only standing somewhere because some lone, brave nutjob broke down the walls for them first.
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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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My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.
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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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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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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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My hatred is diamond-hard.
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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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It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.
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The idea of karma reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.
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I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.
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More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of people who consider themselves 'edgy' are those who only embraced radical ideas LONG after it became safe for them to do so.
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I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.
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I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.
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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 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've realized there are far more efficient and devastating methods of disturbing people than merely sloshing around in the pigpen with obvious, profane, scatological, flat-brained, grade-school offensiveness.
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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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It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days a hundred years ago, it was.
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What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.
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