Everybody around me is happy, my spirit is right, and just nothing but peace and tranquility in the building.
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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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Being with my family and kids, on an island, eating and drinking.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 July 2022 source ↗
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View all 158 →The absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.
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.
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Being surrounded by my friends and family. Just listening to them interacting, laughing, sharing. It is the culmination of everything I could have hoped for.
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Lying, unreliability.
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