Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image ““He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“His eyes twinkled mischievously as he gazed at me with that look that always made me melt: as if I were edible and he… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“He was looking me over in that weird, intense way he had, like I was a rare species of beetle and he was a… — Eli Easton Copy Share Image
“He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“Well, they set spiders and snakes on me for a bit and blew me up and there was this really scary cake, but it’s… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“you know, all spider-like and mother fucking huge and hairy, he made up for with how he behaved and how he treated me.” — Mark Alders Copy Share Image
“He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Mind your own business, you goddamn raisin with legs!" Taran screamed from inside the house.” — Cecy Robson Copy Share Image
“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“His eyes looked cruel, piercing, almost like those of a wolf seeking his prey, and his mouth looked thinner, more sinister than it had… — Serena Valentino Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
![“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote…” quote by Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/882/raymond-chandler-629_dashiel-hammett_hammett-was-the-ace-performer-he-is-said_20171.jpg)
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