I’ve never read any Proust.
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None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
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View all 32 →Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
I’ve never read any Salman Rushdie.
I feel no shame about not reading a book. That’s silly.
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Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
Loved you in Dallas.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
Haven’t done it yet.
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