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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.
Becoming dickish.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2012 source ↗
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Tom Lubbock
Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
Johnny Flynn
British actor and musician
I’ve got vertigo, so anything to do with heights.
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View profile →Discretion and good cheer.
Now. My life is better with every year of living it.
Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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