Read incorrectly, that sounds like a threat. No thanks, Vanity Fair !
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What kind of death would you consider a good one?Originally asked
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A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
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Lily Tomlin
Comedian and actor
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Oblivious to the event or on the brink of a genuine religious conversion.
Patrick Stewart
Actor
If needed—a doctor-assisted death.
Christopher Hitchens
Essayist, critic and journalist
And even if my voice goes before I do, I shall continue to write polemics against religious delusions, at least until it’s hello darkness my old friend. In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be “me.” (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)
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Being aware and accepting of whatever the state of my mind happens to be at the moment (even if that state is unhappy).
Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
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