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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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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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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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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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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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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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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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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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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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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'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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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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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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