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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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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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Too much good taste can be boring
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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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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The personality is a work of art.
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Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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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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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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