"While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate."

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Source : Charles M. Blow (2014). “Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Charles M. Blow

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“The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one.”

Source : "Lib Dems vow to block Tory welfare cuts plan in any coalition talks" by Nicholas Watt, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2015.
“We now have a national reputation for corruption.”
“The essential thing is to run period! And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.”
“Clone ourselves through teaching others.”

Source : Horst M. Rechelbacher (2005). “Aliveihood”
“The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.”
“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.”
“People have been asking me if I was going to have kids, and I had puppies instead.”
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

Source : George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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