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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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When were you happiest?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 January 2024 source ↗
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Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
Eating breakfast foods at a time of the day other than breakfast. Pancakes for dinner—I’m happy.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
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The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”
People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.
When our family was complete.
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