I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
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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.
To be taller. I’ve been looking up at certain people all my life. If I was taller, I could look down and see them a lot better.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 November 2001 source ↗
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
I always dreamt of having a second stomach I could carry around in a bag, which I could attach to my real stomach when I sat down in restaurants. That way, I could eat a huge amount, never gaining weight.
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
Bonnie Raitt
Singer and guitarist
Balancing my inner and outer life.
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Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.
Selfishness—people who don’t care about others or their feelings and will do or say anything as long as they get what they want.
In Macon, Georgia, during my childhood. I knew everybody there—it was like the whole town was your family. I felt complete there.
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