Eating breakfast foods at a time of the day other than breakfast. Pancakes for dinner—I’m happy.
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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.
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.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2010 source ↗
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View all 158 →Making a gourmet dinner with my husband, Tom, then just hanging out with our four children, their spouses, and our delightful grandchildren.
Being at home, watching a good movie with my husband. Dining out with good friends.
I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.
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View profile →Forgetting. Or, worse yet, not recognizing who my real friends are.
Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.
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