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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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It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days a hundred years ago, it was.
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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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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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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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The leftist drive for control is insatiable.
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Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.
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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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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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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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My hatred is diamond-hard.
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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'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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Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.
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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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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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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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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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I can't tell you how many times people - through the anonymity and safety of the Internet, of course - have told me 'You beat women' as if it was an ongoing, daily thing. The only person ever brave enough to say it to my face quickly surrendered his courage when I said, 'Would you like to step outside and see if I can beat men, too?'
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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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