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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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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
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Paris
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D. V. Vreeland
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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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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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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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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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The personality is a work of art.
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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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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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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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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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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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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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'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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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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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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