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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Diana Vreeland

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Narcissism
Loathe
Vanity
Fashion

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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.
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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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