Becoming dickish.
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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 on my deathbed and realising I’d forgotten to treat each day as the miracle that it is.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗
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Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
John Malkovich
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That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
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For making a difference.
Passionate, mum, green.
Following the Zen proverb: you should sit and meditate for 20 minutes; if you’re too busy, then you should sit and meditate for an hour.
I very often set my heart on things – and if they don’t happen, I’m not great at dealing with disappointment.
A holiday job as a chambermaid at the Scratchwood Travelodge on the M1. The state some people leave their rooms in was a revelation.
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