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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
Pizza and wine after performing for a great Saturday-night crowd on Broadway.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 February 2018 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 165 →Floating on my back in the ocean.
Eating ice cream in the cinema, watching the trailers, with the main film about to start.
John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
When I was growing up on a farm in rural Alabama, I fell in love with raising chickens. They seem truly innocent. Whenever I'm around chickens, I feel happy.
More from Laurie Metcalf
View profile →My sister, who manages to see the positive in any situation.
Anything underneath me in water I can’t see to the bottom of.
Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
Their ability to make me laugh from the gut.
Ingratitude. Taking advantage of others.
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