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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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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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Pleasure is everything.
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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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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 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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The best thing about London is Paris.
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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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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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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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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 adore artifice. I always have.
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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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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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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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