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How would you like to die?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Like John Huston, after shooting The Dead.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2020 source ↗
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Ina Garten
Cookery writer and shop owner
I don’t care as long as Jeffrey and I go together and we end up in a big suite with a view of the ocean.
Cory Taylor
Novelist and screenwriter
As far as I can tell, I’ll either succumb to some opportunistic infection, for which I’ve refused antibiotics in advance, or, having similarly declined forced feeding, I’ll starve to death. ... I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones.
Diane Keaton
Actor and director
Like? I have no soft spot, fondness, admiration, respect, attraction, or esteem for death. I am not taken with it or infatuated by it. I carry no torch, have no crush, take no shine to the word or action of death. I don’t have the hots for it, and I don’t dig it, either.
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