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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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 in love while organizing my closet.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2010 source ↗
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Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
In my bed, a hot-water bottle on my tummy, the windows are open, reading a book that I’m already into, chocolate at hand, all with the knowledge that everyone I love and know is happy.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
Good TV, good delivery, perfect AC. Literally doing nothing.
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View profile →Waking up after a sleepover at John Waters’s house and finding my sleeping bag isn’t zipped up the same way as when I passed out. Or “President Palin.”
Right now, here with you. Let’s not ruin it by talking.
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