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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

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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
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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Pleasure is everything.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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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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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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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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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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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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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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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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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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The personality is a work of art.
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I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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