It happens all the time, but childhood holidays on the North Norfolk coast were a kind of bliss.
When were you happiest?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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Now. When I see my two children enjoying each other's company.
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Iris Apfel
American interior designer and fashion icon
I try to be happy whenever I can. I don’t fret about what’s past and we don’t know if there will be a future, so I make as much as I can out of what’s here now.
Last Sunday when all the family came round to celebrate my 88th birthday. (Or was it Saturday. Or the week before, perhaps?)
Jonathan Safran Foer
American novelist
Leaving the hospital.
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