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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
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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
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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 loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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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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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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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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Without emotion there is no beauty
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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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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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Too much good taste can be boring
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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