I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
Being found out.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 1999 source ↗
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