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A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

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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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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 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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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 remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
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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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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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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 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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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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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 think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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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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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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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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