John Grisham
American writer and lawyer
Having a stroke.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
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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
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.
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
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Patrick Stewart
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That I would lose her.
Not waking up in the morning.
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Probably me, but I don’t think I’m supposed to say that!
Taking daily showers and always being there when I need them.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Never picking up the check.
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