They want to leave the party the same time I do.
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What scares you about getting older?
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
reconcile us to life as it is, and make us more real to ourselves.
Essay, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗
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Honesty, trustworthiness, and a deep understanding of emotions.
That they don’t die on me.
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Based on how the scene felt I completely switched the dynamics.
Well, I make the magic wherever I can. I don’t know if that’s conscious or accidental.
It brings the freedom of having seen a lot of things and survived them.
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