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

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
Female
Pay
Space
Prettiness
Occupying
Rent
Marked
Empowering

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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 think your imagination is your reality
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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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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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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Too much good taste can be boring
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There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
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