Originally asked
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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2014 source ↗
My parents, because they did what they did to give me the opportunities to do what I do. They left their lives behind in Australia and started again in their 40s in a new country.
Ricky Gervais. I’m saying that so he might read this and cast me in something.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
The Buddhist monk Tapa Snim I met in Burma in 2007, all of whose earthly possessions he carried in a small bundle slung on one shoulder.
People who can’t read my mind.
That I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust.
A good nap and a full house.
A love of laughter and a shared belief that life is a dream.
Stealing from the elderly and then acting real cocky about it.
Luise Rainer, PP Arnold, Greg James, Chris Rock, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Cleese
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