Pizza and wine after performing for a great Saturday-night crowd on Broadway.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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When were you happiest?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
A fireplace, a book, and a snowy day, with no possibility of getting into the office.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2004 source ↗
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