Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.
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Originally asked
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.
Walking in my garden in England with my wife.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 April 2016 source ↗
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Eugene Levy
Actor and writer
Devouring an egg salad sandwich with the salt, pepper, and mayo in exactly the right proportion.
When, as a university freshman, I would go to the ocean in the summer and free-dive all day long.
To be wildly, desperately, carelessly, nakedly in love, of course. Crazy, obsessive love: brooding, baying at the moon, writing daily missives to the adored. Who wouldn’t want this? Even though the crash is painful.
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A year ago, after only four lessons, skiing alone in the Sierras.
Gregory Peck not mentioning me when he won best supporting actor at the Golden Globes for Father Mapple in Moby-Dick. I played Ahab.
If needed—a doctor-assisted death.
That I would lose her.
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