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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A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
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Diane Keaton
Actor and director
Like? I have no soft spot, fondness, admiration, respect, attraction, or esteem for death. I am not taken with it or infatuated by it. I carry no torch, have no crush, take no shine to the word or action of death. I don’t have the hots for it, and I don’t dig it, either.
Hans Zimmer
Film composer
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Eugene Levy
Actor and writer
In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Oblivious to the event or on the brink of a genuine religious conversion.
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View profile →My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
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