That I would have focused more on languages.
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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.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗
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Sally Field
Actor
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
I'm trying to be more organized.
Adam Gopnik
Staff writer at The New Yorker; essayist
You have to discipline your mind and your heart and not to be unduly nostalgic about those losses.
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Being confined in a straitjacket.
Being able to share a confidence.
The inability to listen.
I can be pedantic at times.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
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