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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.
Being on a Broadway stage and forgetting what the play is.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2019 source ↗
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It used to be loneliness, and it might still be.
I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.
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Knowing they are there for you.
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The inability to laugh before 11 a.m.
Devouring an egg salad sandwich with the salt, pepper, and mayo in exactly the right proportion.
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