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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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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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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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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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The personality is a work of art.
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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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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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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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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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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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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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Pleasure is everything.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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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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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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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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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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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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