Being lost and no one wanting to find me.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
Couples who have to be sat side by side at L.A. dinner parties. What is that all about?!
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2020 source ↗
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Christopher Hitchens
Essayist, critic and journalist
Instead, I am badly oppressed by a gnawing sense of waste. I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read—if not indeed write—the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? But I understand this sort of non-thinking for what it is: sentimentality and self-pity.
Losing my mind.
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Gloria Steinem.
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