Being confined in a straitjacket.
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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.
A crippling accident.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2014 source ↗
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Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
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Scottish singer and songwriter
I have a mild fear of not being appreciative enough for the luck that has come my way. That’s about it.
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How doesn’t matter—it’s when that matters. When I’m ready!
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