Ilka Chase Quotes - Page 2

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

  Ilka Chase

  Rose, Tudors, Potatoes

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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

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  Peas In A Pod, People, Trying

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

  Ilka Chase

  Political, Dry, Intellect

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

  Ilka Chase

  Heart, College, Prom

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• El amor a distancia puede ser conmovedor, pero también idealizado. El contacto, más que la separación, es la prueba del apego.

  Ilka Chase

  Distance, Attachment, May

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

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  Sleep, Night, Clothes

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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.

  Ilka Chase

  Art, Naked, Taste

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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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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  Should Have, Attention, Masters

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

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  Doe, Statistics, Audience

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• I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

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  Book, Eye, Voice

  Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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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.

  Ilka Chase

  Travel, Regret, You'll Regret It

  Ilka Chase (1969). “The varied airs of spring”, W.H. Allen

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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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  Photography, People, Thank God

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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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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  War, Machines, World

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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

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  Differences, Littles, Results

  Ilka Chase (1946). “I love Miss Tilli Bean”

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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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  Insecure, Agency, Today

  Ilka Chase (1942). “Past Imperfect”

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• No lo hizo ni una cadena de montaje, ni una bolsa, ni un pozo de petróleo, simplemente lo que surgió de un pequeño cráneo y esa única mano derecha.

  Ilka Chase

  Hands, Oil, Skulls

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