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I adore artifice. I always have.

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
Artifice
Adore
Fashion
Always

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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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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
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I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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