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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.
The age. I would like to be 30 years old now.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 December 2019 source ↗
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Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Convince myself that walking two miles a day isn’t boring.
Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
My discomfort with being alone.
Being too open and generous to those who don’t deserve it.
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Pedro Almodóvar, for being loyal to his personality as an artist against all the odds.
I don’t like fake people, impostors.
My pathological incapacity to say no.
The very short instant right after accomplishing something very challenging.
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