I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗
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If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
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Being too open and generous to those who don’t deserve it.
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I wish I wasn’t so rash, but would I be me if I wasn’t?
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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Being a salesgirl in a baby shop where the others said things like, “He’s Jewish, but she’s American.” Also, after college, being a waitress in London, and trying to make change in the old money of shillings and pence.
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
I behaved badly with two old lovers. Years later, when I took one to lunch to apologise, it made it worse.
Seeing the future die, from Bobby Kennedy to dear friends.
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
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