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What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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When were you happiest?
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What do you value most in your friends?
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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.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2019 source ↗
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Gayle King
Broadcaster
I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dream that I walk out onto the stage nude. Does that count?
Jia Tolentino
Writer
I’m always afraid of false certainty about things
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View profile →Oh, I have a long list. You should ask me what I like about myself—that list is much shorter.
I wish I always had the right word in the right moment at the right time and not two hours later in my car going home.
People who punch down.
This year's a pretty good year.
Thank you notes I haven't written.
Those who are both loyal and can cook.
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