Floating in a river full of fat trout.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your greatest fear?
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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.
Being out in a gorgeous natural setting with time to enjoy.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 September 2022 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 158 →Waking up in the morning is as perfect as anything gets.
Late one Sunday afternoon, my three-year-old granddaughter, out of the blue, took my hand and said she wanted to whisper something to me. Could we go for a ride around the block before we all sat down for dinner? Just the two of us? Holding hands as we walked to and from the car in the driveway: Bliss.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball player and author
Being surrounded by my friends and family. Just listening to them interacting, laughing, sharing. It is the culmination of everything I could have hoped for.
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View profile →When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
That injustice, ignorance, and fascism win.
As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
Dolores Huerta.
Balancing my inner and outer life.
In my sleep in my 90s, after a great gig.
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