I wouldn’t change anything about myself. If you asked me 20 years ago, I probably would have had a long list. But I’ve learned to appreciate and love who I am.
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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.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 January 2023 source ↗
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I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
My discomfort with being alone.
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View profile →Being aware and accepting of whatever the state of my mind happens to be at the moment (even if that state is unhappy).
Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
Read incorrectly, that sounds like a threat. No thanks, Vanity Fair !
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