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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
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Thoughtfulness
Manners
Everything

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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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 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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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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Pleasure is everything.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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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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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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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All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
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I think your imagination is your reality
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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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The best thing about London is Paris.
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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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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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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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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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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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