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.
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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.
To be more outgoing. I love being home, but sometimes I feel guilty that I like it too much.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2012 source ↗
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