A meal alfresco with people I love.
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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.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 14 December 2021 source ↗
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View all 158 →Laughter and peace of mind.
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.
Karl Ove Knausgård
Novelist
Being together with the ones I love on a Wednesday afternoon, washing the dishes, taking the garbage to the bin under a gray sky, hearing the distant sounds of children from upstairs, turning around and suddenly looking into the eyes of the one I love. It is the feeling of being alive I’m talking about. And of being in love.
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View profile →Being too damned self-absorbed.
Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Probably me, but I don’t think I’m supposed to say that!
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Taking daily showers and always being there when I need them.
Never picking up the check.
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