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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 is your idea of perfect happiness?Originally asked
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View all 167 →The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
Health, life, everything around me on a daily basis, being grateful for life—every day is a blessing.
Family, friends, laughter, and music so loud you feel it inside.
The absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.
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I am unable to use scissors.
Telling me the menu is only accessible through the QR code.
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.
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