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I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

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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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The best thing about London is Paris.
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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 certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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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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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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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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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. 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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I adore artifice. I always have.
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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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