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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Any type of indecision.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗
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Sometimes I follow my instincts more than my reason.
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I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
I’m a very fearless person.
Indecision and wishy-washiness.
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