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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.
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2022 source ↗
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That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
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