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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Joan Rivers
Comedian
Coming offstage after a five-minute standing ovation, falling into the arms of my lover, and having the doctor look at me and say, “This is impossible! She looks much too young to go!”
Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
Like Joel McCrea’s character at the end of the movie Ride the High Country. (He says something about “entering his house justified,” sits up to take a last look at the scenery, then rolls contentedly out of the frame.) Or like Bill Nighy’s character at the end of our film Living.
Neil Patrick Harris
Actor
Quickly and by surprise. I don’t want the specter of death to linger.
More from George Saunders
View profile →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.
I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.
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