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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.
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗
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John Malkovich
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Watching seeds grow in the greenhouse. Drawing or reading or cooking.
Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
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View profile →My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.
That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
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