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. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
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… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
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… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
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… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
