George Saunders
Short-story writer and novelist
I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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.
My tendency to worry about the future if there’s nothing you can do about it.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 17 June 2020 source ↗
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Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
So for years I kept calling myself an entrepreneur until one day I realized like, wait a second, this is expired! Like somebody who is an athlete in high school can’t keep calling himself an athlete forever.
My inability to have a long-term intimate relationship.
Sally Field
Actor
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
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View profile →Being at home, watching a good movie with my husband. Dining out with good friends.
Bigotry. Narcissism.
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