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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.
Diana Vreeland
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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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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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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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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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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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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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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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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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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 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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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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Too much good taste can be boring
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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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I adore artifice. I always have.
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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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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