Not trying something I really want to do.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗
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Cory Taylor
Novelist and screenwriter
He’s always been the family cook. He’s been feeding me since the day we met. Everything I know about Japanese food I know because of him. So now that’s another pleasure gone, perhaps the greatest. I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones. What it will do to Shin I can’t bear to contemplate.
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Edited extract from Dying: A Memoir, published by Text Publishing, The Guardian, 17 May 2016
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Incapacitation.
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Being at one with yourself.
As the Queen of Rock’n’Roll. As a woman who showed other women that it is OK to strive for success on their own terms.
Like a dryer going off in your stomach.
Too many times I had people try and make decisions for me. The assumption that I needed that was a big mistake!
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