Art. I recently bought a Sean Scully painting, I have a Damien Hirst, a Tracey Emin, a Polly Morgan snake and a couple of Jonathan Yeos.
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Diamonds for my wife.
An old camper van that has cost me more in repairs than my house, my wedding and all the holidays I’ve ever been on.
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I haven’t done it yet.
Since hostile people still call me a former Playboy Bunny, even at 82, I probably shouldn’t have done that in my youth, even to write an exposé. And since a couple of times they’ve also referred to me as a former CIA agent, because I went to two Soviet-era communist youth festivals, I probably shouldn’t have done that, either. Yet if I hadn’t done both, I might have judged other people by such empty symbols, too.
First a horse rancher, then a dancer.
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
As someone who left the world around me a little kinder and less hierarchical.
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