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• the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

  Shana Alexander

  Plastic, Metabolism, Throwing

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Wine, Men, Jugs

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• You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.

  Jean Houston

  Cells, Ego, Soul

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• Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

  Robert Crais

  Food, Light, Cooking

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• The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'

  Dave Barry

  Beautiful, Country, Couple

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.127, Ballantine Books

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• I always have a pair of Ray-Bans in my bag and lots of pairs at home because they seem to go missing. They're a real staple.

  Kate Moss

  Real, Home, Missing

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• American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

  Michael Kors

  Fall, Weekend, Night

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.

  Merle Shain

  Strong, Men, White

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• It is tempting to think of your husband-to-be as just another bridal accessory. It may be easier for him to play along with this too. After all, you don't expect your shoes or your beaded bag to help you make decisions.

  Mimi Pond

  Husband, Thinking, Play

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• I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Plot, Superstitions, Sand

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• What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Zero, Artist, Car

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem.

  Augusto De Luca

  Skeletons, Order, Perspective

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• You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack.

  Mary McMullen

  Running, Travel, Lying

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• I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.

  Guy Fieri

  Guy, Kind, Tricks

  Interview with Mike Farley, www.bullz-eye.com. February 3, 2009.

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• I am definitely not a light packer. My thought is you never know what the weather will be like or what you will feel like wearing that day, so I always have multiple bags with me - even for a two-day trip.

  Russell Westbrook

  Light, Weather, Two

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Littles, Superstitions, Good Things

  Gertrude Atherton (0101). “Black Oxen”, p.264, Prabhat Prakashan

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• One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.

  Jo Coudert

  Hunting, Punishment, Judging

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.197, iUniverse

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• People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

  Rob Payne

  Laughter, Filling Up, Shopping

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 26, 2003.

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• I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn’t write my name on it, but I’m sure he figured out it was me.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Crush, Teacher, Writing

  "What Was Jennifer Hudson Like at 17?". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mind, Kind, Great Writers

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• When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Mars, Germs, Ifs

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• I'm not into sugar for kids, but you don't want your kid to be the carrot kid. There's always the kid at the birthday parties carrying a bag of carrots. You've got to let them eat a little cake.

  Tobey Maguire

  Party, Kids, Cake

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• Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.

  Suzanne Somers

  Real, Sea, Earth

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• I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.

  Adrien Brody

  Oscar Award for Best Leading Actor Acceptance Address, Delivered 23 March 2003, Kodak Theater, Hollywood, California

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• It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Fall, Home, Thinking

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