Raymond Chandler Quotes on Description
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The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.
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Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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...crazy as a couple of waltzing mice.
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She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak, and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.
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He didn't curl his lip because it had been curled when he came in.
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She opened her mouth like a firebucket and laughed. That terminated my interest in her. I couldn't hear the laugh but the hole in her face when she unzippered her teeth was all I needed.