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Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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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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It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world.
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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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I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.
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If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.
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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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To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity.
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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 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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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 don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.
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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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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'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.
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Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.
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I believe that to some degree there are situational and psychological laws of cause-and-effect, but I don't believe there's some Über-soul who doles out justice.
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I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.
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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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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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Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on hate-speech laws with frightening eagerness.
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