I’d like to increase my brain’s computing speed.
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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.
I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2013 source ↗
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The age. I would like to be 30 years old now.
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My inability to have romantic relationships.
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In my sleep. And I don’t think about it. It’ll be what it’ll be.
Self-importance, arrogance.
I’m certainly not going to tell it here.
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