George Saunders
Short-story writer and novelist
I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.
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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.
My weight, but I’m working on it. I will return!
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2003 source ↗
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Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
That I would have focused more on languages.
Sally Field
Actor
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
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View profile →It’s never going to be absolutely perfect. There will always be something you would change if you could.
My lips are sealed.
Right here, right now.
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