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Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 November 2024 source ↗
The question
What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?Originally asked
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Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.
Lily Tomlin
Comedian and actor
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
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View profile →Oh, man. Well, I hope when we die, it’s the same as before we were born. No one’s really frightened of that enormous, infinite blackness before we were born. No one sits there thinking, “Oh, God, how awful. I was nothing.” So I don’t really see why we should be frightened of that after we die, as long as it is black. I really don’t want to be up there on a cloud playing a harp, meeting some of the people I’ve hated in my life. I can’t imagine a greater nightmare. That would be hell, in fact.
The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.
Telling me the menu is only accessible through the QR code.
I am unable to use scissors.
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