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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.
I fear nothing, except for flying.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2016 source ↗
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Maureen O'Hara
Irish and American actress and singer
Not getting into heaven.
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
Not being able to work.
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People who do not love. If you are not loving, you are not living. Why wouldn’t you love? What’s the problem?
Jay Z. He’s a mogul. He’s a Sagittarius like me. I love his business moves.
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