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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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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
Bored
Went
Money
Wanted
Work
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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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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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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Without emotion there is no beauty
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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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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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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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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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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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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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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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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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'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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