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People are like icebergs; one-seventh visible and operative, and the rest just so much protoplasmic energy, seething around under there, looking for a target to funnel toward.† (source)
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and without money there could be no pleasure, and without pleasure it would not even be breathing but mere protoplasmic inhale and collapse of blind unorganism in a darkness where light never began.† (source)
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If you are not substantial yourself it's very difficult to realize how limiting protoplasm is.† (source)
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But if he gave in to it, if the cops finally returned tomorrow or the day after to find Annie dead in the guest-room and a blubbering ball of protoplasm in the downstairs bathroom, a blubbering ball of protoplasm who had once been a writer named Paul Sheldon, wouldn't that be Annie's victory?† (source)
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Like the night had its own voice-that hum in your ears-and in the hours after midnight you'd swear you were walking through some kind of soft black protoplasm, Vietnam, the blood and the flesh.† (source)
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Heart attacks, strokes, stabbings, falls off buildings—his protoplasm is resilient.† (source)
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Ten gees gets you into parking orbit around Terra in a mere 3.26 x 10^7 microseconds; merely seems longer, ten gravities being sixty times what a fragile sack of protoplasm should be asked to endure.† (source)
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I wanted to be a writer myself until halfway through Harvard I realized I could never be a Dostoevsky, and so turned my piercing mind toward the seething arcana of human protoplasm.† (source)
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A miserable bit of protoplasm, full of ugly little concepts and mean little emotions-and it imagines itself important!† (source)
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I get the same results time after time—protoplasm.† (source)
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It turned out that they had mistaken a precipitate of gypsum for protoplasm.† (source)
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It felt to her as if she were fingering the very quivering tissue, the very protoplasm of life, as she heard him.† (source)
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Without their spirit life might never have moved out of protoplasm.† (source)
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There were atoms in the ancient world even, but since we've learned that you've discovered the chemical molecule and protoplasm and the devil knows what, we had to lower our crest.† (source)
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Of course, we could not count the dead, because they did not exist as individuals, but merely as homogeneous protoplasm, with alloys of iron and buttons.† (source)
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But if he gave in to it, if the cops finally returned tomorrow or the day after to find Annie dead in the guest-room and a blubbering ball of protoplasm in the downstairs bathroom, a blubbering ball of protoplasm who had once been a writer named Paul Sheldon, wouldn't that be Annie's victory?† (source)
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