To survive from an impossible condition.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The demise of the London Daily Mail.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 16 October 2014 source ↗
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View all 158 →A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
Eating breakfast foods at a time of the day other than breakfast. Pancakes for dinner—I’m happy.
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Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
Lack of self-criticism.
Self-criticism.
There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
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