When I’m extremely old during a huge family celebration where everyone is playing games and giving pre-written toasts … to me.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 March 2016 source ↗
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With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.
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In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
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At the right time, and like my father—utterly without fear or pain, at home, with all whom I love. It was his last lesson as a parent to me.
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Sufficiently well to see Johnson and Truss and then two or three days later, she’s dead. I thought, that’s fantastic. That’s something to celebrate. That’s a great death.
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