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Pleasure is everything.
Diana Vreeland
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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
Pleasure
Everything
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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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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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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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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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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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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
Diana Vreeland
Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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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 good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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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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I adore artifice. I always have.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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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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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
Diana Vreeland
If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
Diana Vreeland
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.
Diana Vreeland