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The best thing about London is Paris.

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
London
Best
Thing
Paris

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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.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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Too much good taste can be boring
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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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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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Pleasure is everything.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
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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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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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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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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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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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