That I’ll never work again.
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗
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View all 256 →I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.
John Grisham
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Having a stroke.
Robert Carlyle
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Losing my family in some way.
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View profile →Again, not gonna change anything about myself. I’ve really learned to appreciate everything. Okay, maybe I’d be taller. How about that?
Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.
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