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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.

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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
Please
Fine
Vulgar
Boring

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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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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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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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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 left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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All my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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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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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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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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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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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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