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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
Vulgar
Boring
Please
Fine

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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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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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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.
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Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
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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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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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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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The best thing about London is Paris.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was 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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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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