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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.
Safety of loved ones.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2024 source ↗
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View all 256 →The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.
Paul McKenna
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My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
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You’re more capable than you think.
I teared up when I did a voiceover for my memoir while talking about my mother-in-law, whom I adored and miss so much.
I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.
My very long to-do list.
I think our kids take our stuff!
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