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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
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Fashion Editor
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Paris
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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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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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Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.
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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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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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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 think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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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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All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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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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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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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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