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Originally asked
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.
Not having the people I love around me.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2024 source ↗
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Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
Kevin Rowland
British singer
Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
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Not going to the World Cup in 1986 and not going to the World Cup in 1998.
Lack of acceptance of my bad timekeeping
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Losing the ability to get about.
Happy, loyal and late.
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