Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 August 2022 source ↗
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A balmy, moonlit evening in Key West. George and I are enjoying a pasta dinner on the balcony overlooking the ocean. Ella Fitzgerald is singing in the background.
Drinks on the deck at sunset.
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Inefficiency. Whiners.
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