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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

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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
Civilization
Fashion
Ends
Shoes

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I adore artifice. I always have.
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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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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 like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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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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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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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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