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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
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
World
Thinks
Weakness
Someone
Firsts
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Something
Time
Authoritative
Thinking
Discovered

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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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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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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 personality is a work of art.
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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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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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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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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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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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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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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.
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