Eating dan dan noodles with my wife.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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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.
It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 December 2015 source ↗
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Unmade bed surrounded by books, writing utensils, and the dog; a plate of demolished toast with butter on my chest; loved ones puttering not too close but not too far.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
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My quick temper and the chaos that ensues in the hurricane that follows.
I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
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