Impatience and vanity.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I repeat stories (like my mum used to).
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗
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View all 245 →An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
Impatience. I’m not very good at waiting around or dealing with things that aren’t moving at a pace that I want them to.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
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