Sally Mann
Photographer
Reading. And, in particular, reading on the deck of the cabin while my children play in the river below.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Originally asked
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.
Knowing that each day I have lived wisely and loved well.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 April 2022 source ↗
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Warm chocolate cake, a gorgeous fire, and Idris Elba. Also, world peace.
Megan Rapinoe
United States international footballer, 2006–2023
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” —Emma Lazarus. Perfect happiness exists only in my imagination at the moment.
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Greta Thunberg.
Not doing the above.
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