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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.

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
Thoughtfulness
Manners
Everything
Think
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.
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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
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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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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
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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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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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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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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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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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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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