Waking up after a sleepover at John Waters’s house and finding my sleeping bag isn’t zipped up the same way as when I passed out. Or “President Palin.”
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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When were you happiest?
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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.
Talking too much.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2017 source ↗
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View all 256 →When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
Not doing the above.
Dependency. Fascism.
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Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
Failure to be on time.
When I finished writing a book.
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