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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.

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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
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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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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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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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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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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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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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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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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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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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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Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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