Michael Frayn – such modesty, talent, kindness and bottomless curiosity.
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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How would you like to die?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Oprah Winfrey. She always does the right thing—even when no one is looking.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2016 source ↗
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The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I’m disorganized.
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I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
It’s a toss-up between mean and petty.
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