Having no way of earning money.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Getting thrown down a well.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2022 source ↗
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View all 255 →That we will be remembered as a people who locked our fellow citizens in cages and who believe that some people are rich and some people are poor because “it’s their nature” and that racism and poverty are inevitable parts of the order of things; that M.L.K. and Bobby Kennedy died in vain; and that no one any longer believes what M.L.K. said in his Nobel Prize address in Oslo: “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.”
It’s a toss-up between a tarantula crawling on me and dying alone.
Bruce Dickinson
English heavy metal singer
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
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I bore myself constantly.
Grace Zabriskie – her style; her woodworking.
Whenever it was, it’s likely I was actually miserable, destitute and alone.
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