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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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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.
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People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.
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My hatred is diamond-hard.
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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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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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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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What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.
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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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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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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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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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In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.
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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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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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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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I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.
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Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.
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I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.
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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'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.
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