Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Oblivious to the event or on the brink of a genuine religious conversion.
How would you like to die?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 January 2022 source ↗
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Al Franken
Senator and comedian
Surrounded by my great-great-grandchildren.
Henry Marsh
Neurosurgeon and writer
Sufficiently well to see Johnson and Truss and then two or three days later, she’s dead. I thought, that’s fantastic. That’s something to celebrate. That’s a great death.
John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
I don't want to die. I don't think I'm going to die…but we all have to die. Since I do, I hope I live on in the hearts and minds of people.
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That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
Wow! Like, the way people mess up language. I mean, it makes me crazy, y’know?
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