Dying with a feeling of incompleteness.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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 have a mild fear of not being appreciative enough for the luck that has come my way. That’s about it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 October 2022 source ↗
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Jerry Lewis
American comedian, actor and filmmaker
When the audience walks toward the stage.
Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
John Malkovich
American actor
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
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Not much. Given that I’m up and active most mornings around 5am, I’ve had enough of everything by 9pm.
I’ve learned to give myself a break. Everyone should.
I travelled all the way to the Arctic Circle to see the aurora borealis, then fell asleep and missed it.
Like Celtic hitting the back of the net in the 90th minute of a Champions League football match.
A friend named Paul Hill [one of the Guildford Four] spent 15 years in prison doing time for crimes he did not commit. We communicate most days. I admire the hell out of him.
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