To be taller. I’ve been looking up at certain people all my life. If I was taller, I could look down and see them a lot better.
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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.
I'm trying to be more organized.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 July 2019 source ↗
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George Saunders
Short-story writer and novelist
I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.
I would talk slower. When I hear myself interviewed sometimes it sounds like I’m running an auction.
First of all, I’d like to stop complaining—I’m beginning to annoy myself. I would like to learn to read faster, however. Again, the rest I’ve learned to live with.
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I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.
I hate it when my little brothers don't close their mouths when they're eating.
They treat me as a regular person.
Being grateful for what you have.
Biting my nails.
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