Adam Zagajewski
Poet and essayist
Happiness springs from having found a form of expression that also earns recognition.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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How much rewriting or revision do you do?
Craft & work
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Values & belief
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What do you do when you feel creatively blocked or stuck?
Craft & work
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Whose work makes you jealous?
Craft & work
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What is the most rewarding part of being a parent?
Relationships
Originally asked
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.
I took Nicole out to dinner for the first time on 19 October, 1991. After that, everything changed.
Rob McGibbon, The Definite Article, Rob McGibbon, 27 August 2011 source ↗
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John Mellencamp
Singer and songwriter
It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness.
Just a lazy day roaming New York with my daughters—La Esquina for lunch and Mister Softee for dessert.
Having a bunch of answers and getting to fill in the questions. With loved ones. While in Maui.
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When I’m ready I’ll transfer what I have to the computer and rewrite.
There is an awful lot of pious theatre at the moment, where you go to have what you already believed reinforced.
If not, I’ll go to the cinema or answer emails.
I was jealous as hell.
I’m much much closer to my children than my father was to me, and I would hope that the quality of love I’ve given them is different from the quality my father gave me.
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