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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

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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
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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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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 certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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