Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.
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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.
Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗
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Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
Sitting in a living room with my sister, Pat Thaler, and her seven grandchildren and just talking with them. They range in age from 9 to 21 years old.
To sit by a clear river on a warm day in early July with the smell of cut grass in the air.
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Discretion and good cheer.
Becoming dickish.
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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