Karl Ove Knausgård
Novelist
Self-combusting at a very late age.
How would you like to die?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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Eugene Levy
Actor and writer
In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and writer
It was this celestial splendor that suddenly made me realize how little time, how little life, I had left. My sense of the heavens’ beauty, of eternity, was inseparably mixed for me with a sense of transience — and death. ... I told my friends Kate and Allen, “I would like to see such a sky again when I am dying.” “We’ll wheel you outside,” they said.
Pedro Almodóvar
Film director
Like John Huston, after shooting The Dead.
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View profile →A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
To place faith over facts.
Sir David Attenborough, John Prendergast.
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
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