Charlie Munger
Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, my suggestion is you not enter.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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.
I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗
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That I would have focused more on languages.
My inability to have a long-term intimate relationship.
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I haven’t done it yet.
Seeing the future die, from Bobby Kennedy to dear friends.
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
In my 30s, I was staring at a pair of expensive boots in a shop window when the photographer Gordon Parks came up behind me. He instantly understood, because he grew up even poorer than me; he made me buy them on my credit card.
I’ve had cancer three times, but never felt close to death except when I walked between parked cars on my street and a car sped past my nose.
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