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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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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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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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I think your imagination is your reality
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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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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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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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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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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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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