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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
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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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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Where would fashion be without literature?
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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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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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Pink is the navy blue of India.
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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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The personality is a work of art.
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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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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 discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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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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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
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