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Quotes from The High Window — Raymond Chandler

1888–1959 England

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He didn't curl his lip because it had been curled when he came in.

The High Window (1942)

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

The High Window (1942)

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.

The High Window (1942)

A cigarette girl came down the gangway. She wore an egret plume in her hair, enough clothes to hide behind a toothpick, one of her long beautiful naked legs was silver, and one was gold. She had the utterly disdainful expression of a dame who makes her dates by long distance.

The High Window (1942)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Raymond Chandler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.