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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.
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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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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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Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.
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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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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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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'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.
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