Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
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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.
Clarity when I am writing.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 July 2024 source ↗
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Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
Being at peace with God.
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Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and protect your work. […] Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.
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Christian Lund, Louisiana Literature festival, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 24 August 2012, Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 24 August 2012
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The artist Gerhard Richter.
I would love to have a better sense of physical balance.
Tramping through the woods in South Jersey in 1957 with my dog Bambi.
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