I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗
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Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
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Any cancer survivor.
The 60s at the University of California at Santa Barbara weren’t bad.
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