I haven’t done it yet.
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Marie Kondo
Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host
It’s still a work in progress, but I would have to say, organising the world. With all the KonMari consultants around the world, and those that read my books or watched the Netflix shows, we are definitely making a difference.
Nicholson Baker
Contemporary American novelist and writer
In 1999, the British Library auctioned off some of its newspaper holdings. My wife and I formed a non-profit and saved more than 20 tons of these irreplaceable bound newspapers, including the last intact run of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World.
Emma Barnett
British broadcaster and journalist
Keeping a relationship with the love of my life, for 16 years.
Shirley Manson
Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage
My dog’s trust in me.
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View profile →I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
As someone who left the world around me a little kinder and less hierarchical.
I’ve had cancer three times, but never felt close to death except when I walked between parked cars on my street and a car sped past my nose.
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
I behaved badly with two old lovers. Years later, when I took one to lunch to apologise, it made it worse.
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