A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
The question
If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
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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.
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I would erase my fear of dying, but I suppose that would be erasing some of my human condition.
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if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, my suggestion is you not enter.
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Balancing my inner and outer life.
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A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
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To place faith over facts.
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
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