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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
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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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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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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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 read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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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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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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Too much good taste can be boring
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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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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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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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The best thing about London is Paris.
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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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