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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being out in a gorgeous natural setting with time to enjoy.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 September 2022 source ↗
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When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
That injustice, ignorance, and fascism win.
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As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
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