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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

Diana Vreeland

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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
Discovered
Dancing
Dance
Learned
Dream

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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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You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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The personality is a work of art.
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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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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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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