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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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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Passion
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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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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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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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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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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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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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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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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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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Too much good taste can be boring
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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 my life I've pursued the perfect red.
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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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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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