That we won’t act fast enough to save the planet.
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
Death & what remains
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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.
Losing my family in some way.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 source ↗
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Gino D'Acampo
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Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.
Tom Lubbock
Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
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I was on a plane in India and I thought it was going to crash. It was an old, rickety thing. It was pre-children - I wouldn't do it now.
My wedding. It was at Skibo Castle long before Madonna or any of those people went there.
Something by Nick Drake.
I'm a great admirer of Tony Benn -he's one of the few politicians who speaks his mind.
The worst was as a butcher, aged 17.
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