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To be contented—that’s for the cows.

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
Contented
Cows

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Pleasure is everything.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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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 like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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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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Too much good taste can be boring
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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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I think your imagination is your reality
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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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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 adore artifice. I always have.
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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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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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