Seth Meyers
American comedian and TV host
Running out of ideas.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is the best advice you have ever received?
Time & hindsight
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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Are you afraid of death?
Death & what remains
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When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
Daily life
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What are you still hoping to finish?
Death & what remains
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
Taste & recommendation
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.
That human beings will follow their stupid and greedy side, rather than their smart side, and go down the plughole. We’re circling the rim.
Helen Bownass, Five Minute Philosopher, Stylist, 15 October 2019 source ↗
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Robert Glenister
English actor
Premature demise.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Harlan Coben
American author
I don’t even voice them. Perhaps the books are my outlet here.
More from Margaret Atwood
View profile →In 1972, by Farley Mowat, after I’d had a modest success: “Now you’re a target, and people will shoot at you.” Which is not about how to write, but about some of the consequences of having done so.
Getting too involved in too many things. It eats your brain.
Of dying, only if painful and protracted, or if I get stuck inside an inert body. I would also not wish to be trapped in a jar.
Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.
Well, probably this big sack of poetry.
What is this guilt of which you prate, Earthling?
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