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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
Boring
Please
Fine
Vulgar

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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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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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For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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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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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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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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