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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.
Becoming dickish.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2012 source ↗
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Running out of ideas.
It used to be loneliness, and it might still be.
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To die before I know certain things.
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I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
Discretion and good cheer.
Now. My life is better with every year of living it.
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