Losing a loved one.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
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Being unprepared.
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Trying too hard to be funny.
Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.
Well, Frank Sinatra’s gone, so the rest have to stand in line.
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