Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Convince myself that walking two miles a day isn’t boring.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
Procrastinating. I saved answering this questionnaire until the very last minute.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 2 September 2025 source ↗
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Yo-Yo Ma
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My inability to keep track of personal possessions.
Charlie Munger
Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, my suggestion is you not enter.
Danielle Steel
Novelist
I wish I were braver, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough “fun.”
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