A picnic in my garden in Kerdalo, Brittany.
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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.
Putting my grandchildren to bed.
Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2017 source ↗
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Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
Shopping at the organic farmers market, buying whatever’s in season that looks the ripest and most vibrant, and bringing it home to cook with my friends.
Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.
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View profile →Surrounded by my great-great-grandchildren.
I had to ask people about this, because I couldn’t think of anything, and the consensus seems to be: a general lack of self-awareness.
Some of the worst advice I've been given doesn't sort of sound like terrible advice. And maybe it's the way I've internalized the advice. Always stand up for your principles is probably good advice. The way I've internalized it is burn your bridges. So I think that--you know what I mean?
Piety. But only when people are overly pious. You can’t be too just. Or too courageous.
A sense of humor, integrity, intelligence. Also, factual accuracy.
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