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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.

Jim Goad

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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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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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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In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.
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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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People can be so heartless and dirty.
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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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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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Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.
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Society's only real 'progressives' are the deviants and mutants. Look at evolution - fish who didn't deviate never became amphibians frogs who didn't mutate never became reptiles conformist snakes never became mammals , etc. Normal Humans will remain humans, and they'll be subjugated by the digital monsters of the next few millenia.
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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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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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Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.
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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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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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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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He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.
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Mind you, I live in an area of Atlanta that is nearly 88% black. But in six days in and around Melbourne, I saw maybe three people of African origin and maybe one easily identifiable Australian aborigine.
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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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