“Ugh! The plastic bag! Agreed. Not very aesthetic, but not so bad with a little a little prior practice to become accustomed to it.”

"The Final Act", p. 150
Final Exit

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British-born American euthanasia activist and writer 1930

P. C. Cast book Untamed

Source: Untamed

“She was the perfect cliché among dear little old ladies, down to the very lavender bags she placed among her linen.”

Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890–1973) British writer

The Room

“You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.”

Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.

explaining what's the best way of thinking, in an oral history conducted in 1995 by Andrew Goldstein, IEEE History Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

“If you were to take a plastic bag and place it inside a large bowl, and then, using a wooden spoon, stir the bag around, you could use the expression 'a mixed bag' to describe what you had in front of you, but you would not be using the expression in the same way I am about to use it now. Although 'a mixed bag' sometimes refers to a plastic bag that has been stirred in a bowl, more often, it is used to describe a situation that has both good parts and bad parts. An afternoon movie theater, for example, would be a mixed bag if your favorite movie were showing, but if you had to eat gravel instead of popcorn. A trip to the zoo would be a very mixed bag if the weather were beautiful, but all the man and woman-eating lions were running around loose.”

Daniel Handler book The Ersatz Elevator

Lemony Snicket
The Ersatz Elevator (2001)

“Plastic automatism.... as employed by modern masters, like Masson, Miro, [both artists of Surrealism] and Picasso, is actually very little a question of the unconsciousness. It is much more a plastic weapon with which to invent new forms. As such it is one of the twentieth century greatest formal inventions.”

Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) American artist

Modern Painter's World, Robert Motherwell , Dyn, Nov. 1942, p. 13
1940s

“Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

“Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools."”

Vincent Massey (1887–1967) Governor General of Canada

Address at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, December 6, 1955
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“A little roller up along first; behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!”

Vin Scully (1927) American sports broadcaster

Famous call from Game 6 of the 1986 World Series

“There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

As Judith Beasley in The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

“Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably rather little sense and no feeling or emotion.”

Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913–1994) American neuroscientist

"Evolution of the Human Brain" (1964), p. 2
Context: Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably rather little sense and no feeling or emotion. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety.

“Ugh! The plastic bag! Agreed. Not very aesthetic, but not so bad with a little a little prior practice to become accustomed to it.”

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