Is there such a thing? I guess, for me, it’s really about life’s special moments, large and small.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Playing with a dog. And we’re both drunk.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 August 2017 source ↗
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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.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Those times when I feel equilibrium, maximum consciousness, and clarity.
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View profile →A dog. (I don't have one because we're back and forth over the Atlantic and it would be cruel to leave it.)
It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
I can't remember a time when I was happier than now, to be honest – though that's always been the case.
Over a YouTube clip about animals. "Laboratory animals see sunlight for the first time", or "elephant mourns his best friend the goat". I watch something like that every day and I'm always in pieces.
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