I have a child-like fear of being late. I’m a grown man, and I’m scared I’m going to the principal’s office.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Short-term memory.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2022 source ↗
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I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
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Impatience. Though sometimes it helps!
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Wow! Like, the way people mess up language. I mean, it makes me crazy, y’know?
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
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