I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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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.
I would care less about what people thought of me.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2022 source ↗
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Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
My inability to have romantic relationships.
Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
So for years I kept calling myself an entrepreneur until one day I realized like, wait a second, this is expired! Like somebody who is an athlete in high school can’t keep calling himself an athlete forever.
I’m not going to change anything about myself. I am happy and blessed with what God gave me, and I really have nothing to complain about.
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View profile →I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.
Ricky Gervais. I’m saying that so he might read this and cast me in something.
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