Having a bunch of answers and getting to fill in the questions. With loved ones. While in Maui.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Clarity when I am writing.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 July 2024 source ↗
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
Sitting down to a leisurely conversation in an English tearoom with my wife, a friend, or even an interesting stranger. Good cake is essential.
Making trails and building a tree house.
Monogamy, with the right lady. (Sheer luck.)
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View profile →Tramping through the woods in South Jersey in 1957 with my dog Bambi.
I would love to have a better sense of physical balance.
Collapse of the imagination.
The artist Gerhard Richter.
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and protect your work. […] Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.
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Christian Lund, Louisiana Literature festival, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 24 August 2012, Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 24 August 2012
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