In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗
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What kind of death would you consider a good one?Originally asked
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Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Sometimes when I’m on a plane, as I often am, the weather is rough and we’re worried about going down. I think: If I hold the hand of the person next to me, I’ll be holding everyone’s hand. Like my dear friend, the late Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, I want to know: I’m going to the other side of the mountain.
Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
Peacefully, knowing I’ll be composted in a mushroom suit.
T Bone Burnett
Musician and record producer
I would like to die in good health, at an old age, in a house on a mountain that looks out over the ocean, dreaming about everyone and everything I have had the impossible good fortune to have loved. Maybe Ralph Stanley is singing “Angel Band.”
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That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
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