Eating ice cream in the cinema, watching the trailers, with the main film about to start.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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How would you like to die?
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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.
Close friends, spectacular food, gorgeous weather, and interesting conversation!
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2016 source ↗
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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.
John Malkovich
Actor
Watching seeds grow in the greenhouse. Drawing or reading or cooking.
Being with my husband, David, and the boys.
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Oprah Winfrey. She always does the right thing—even when no one is looking.
I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
It’s a toss-up between mean and petty.
I’d like to die anytime after the age of 90—in my sleep!
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