Floating on my back in the ocean.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
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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.
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Watching my wife and children eat.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2009 source ↗
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A great entrance-making outfit, where everyone oohs and aahs!
Life with no Instagram and no selfies. I am so tired of looking at people staring out of the window of a private plane with a small dog in their laps.
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My bottomless pit of need. Soft erections. It was hard to keep it to just two.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Neil Young. Not in that order.
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