Sickeningly, it’s probably my wife, because she’s a legend.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
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My uncle, Edward Wood Dunham. He has Parkinson’s disease and faces every day with bravery, humor, and a gin-and-tonic.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
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Rose Tremain
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Meryl Streep. For all her truthful and perfected offerings that have taken me to an “elsewhere”, in which my mind could feel both soothed and stimulated.
Mark Gatiss
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Alan Bennett, because he has been such a huge influence on me.
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Unmade bed surrounded by books, writing utensils, and the dog; a plate of demolished toast with butter on my chest; loved ones puttering not too close but not too far.
Casual cruelty; the wearing of essential oils.
An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
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