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There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

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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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Life

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I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
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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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I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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The personality is a work of art.
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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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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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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.
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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 wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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