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To be contented—that’s for the cows.

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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
Cows
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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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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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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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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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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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Pleasure is everything.
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Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
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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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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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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 wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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