Ilka Chase Quotes

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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

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It must in candor be said that his religion sat upon him lightly.

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Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder in the world, as far as women are concerned, is clothes.

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That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

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The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century — glossy, brash, and insecure.

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Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

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To me travel is a triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. The purest of these probably is anticipation, heightened and spurred by travel literature. Others may cling to master stylists, but for unadulterated reading bliss give me travel folders.

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When men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

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All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

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Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

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Like most people who have reached the top, I think she finds that the staying is harder than the climb.

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I always felt that the boiled potato, not the Tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

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Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.

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It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

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George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

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Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

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Everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

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Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

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Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

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I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.

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We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

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Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

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In love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

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Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them look different.

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Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

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There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.

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Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

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When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

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