Best to leave things alone. Pull things out, it all comes down. I’m Jenga like that.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would like to be more accepting of the faults of others.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 January 2013 source ↗
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My tendency to worry about the future if there’s nothing you can do about it.
That I would have focused more on languages.
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Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.
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