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Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
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Others on this question
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Judy Blume
Novelist
My phobias. I’m down to two, so I take that as a positive sign.
I never let it go.
I can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
I’m a perfectionist; it’s boring.
More from John Malkovich
View profile →By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
I admire the mother of my children a great deal, because she’s interesting, smart and funny.
A baseball pitcher.
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