Ilka Chase
Ilka Chase
Ilka Chasewas an American actress and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth8 April 1903
CountryUnited States of America
experience passing-away humans
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.
sleep night clothes
Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.
political dry intellect
Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.
religious atheist men
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
trying atheism fool
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
peas-in-a-pod people trying
Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.
insecure agency peculiar
The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.
children real long-ago
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.
should-have attention masters
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.
rose potatoes tudors
I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.
heartbreaking youth realizing
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.
war world way
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.
travel regret youll-regret-it
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.
sex hypocrisy conventions
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.