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• It was simultaneously refreshing and a bit shocking to see how cavalierly most Aussies toss out slurs and insults about nonwhites.

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  Toss, Insult, Refreshing

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• You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races." But you could fit all the evidence of innate equality on your pinkie fingernail with room to spare.

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  Race, Paper, Rooms

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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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  Naked, Habit, Polite

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• He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

  Jim Goad

  Wind, One Day, Identity

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

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  Honest

  Jim Goad (1998). “The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Jim Goad

  People, Criticism, Shock

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• Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.

  Jim Goad

  Violence, Show Me, Shows

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• I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.

  Jim Goad

  Biceps, Shoulders, Younger Days

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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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  Twelve, Sense Of Humor, Melbourne

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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.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Fatherhood, Instinct

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I write to please myself.

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Please

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.

  Jim Goad

  Ideas, Important, Tailors

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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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.

  Jim Goad

  Prison, Threatening, Happened

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• My hatred is diamond-hard.

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  Hatred, Diamond, Hard

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• I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.

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  Writing, Thinking, Want

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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.

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Angle, Given

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• I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.

  Jim Goad

  Ideas, Developing

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• You truly need to witness me goo-gooing and coo-cooing and making up goofy little songs to glean a full appreciation of how nauseating I can be. This is another instance where things seemingly don't add up - how can this vile, hateful, violent, misogynist, racist, loathsome, repugnant, worthless, reprehensible subhuman be so insanely tender and kind to little doggies and kitty-cats?

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  Song, Appreciation, Cat

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Jail, Racism

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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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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  Mother, Father, Violence

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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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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  Cancer, Divorce, Dark

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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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  Writing, Men, Years

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.

  Jim Goad

  Dust, Facts, Arguing

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

  Jim Goad

  Regret, Prison, Crime

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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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.

  Jim Goad

  Eye, Years, Two

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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