I would be a better, faster, and more faithful writer of letters and e-mails, and returner of phone calls.
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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.
Balancing my inner and outer life.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 September 2022 source ↗
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Short-story writer and novelist
I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.
Being too open and generous to those who don’t deserve it.
If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to change the idea that I should change something about myself.
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As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
In my sleep in my 90s, after a great gig.
Being out in a gorgeous natural setting with time to enjoy.
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