Dying, because I am so happy now.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Losing one of my children, as there is no greater loss.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
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Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts.
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English musician and actor
Outliving my kids – and rats.
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View profile →I cried recently, thinking about my late wife.
Every time one of my kids was born and I knew that they were healthy.
Cruelty. I don’t see the point.
I am always disappointed in myself. I always feel that I haven’t achieved enough, or been as good a parent as I could be.
President Zelenskyy.
A meal alfresco with people I love.
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