Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
Being found out.
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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.
Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2017 source ↗
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Premature demise.
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