Dolly Parton
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Dishonesty and being late for appointments.
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The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
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Matthew Modine
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The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.
Lack of humility, the absence of goodness.
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A baseball pitcher.
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By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
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