In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 November 2019 source ↗
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What kind of death would you consider a good one?Originally asked
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
Like Joel McCrea’s character at the end of the movie Ride the High Country. (He says something about “entering his house justified,” sits up to take a last look at the scenery, then rolls contentedly out of the frame.) Or like Bill Nighy’s character at the end of our film Living.
Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Swiftly, painlessly, and old.
Lily Tomlin
Comedian and actor
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
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The inability to laugh before 11 a.m.
Devouring an egg salad sandwich with the salt, pepper, and mayo in exactly the right proportion.
Being on a Broadway stage and forgetting what the play is.
Deborah Divine.
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