Any day spent laughing with friends or family.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 October 2016 source ↗
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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When were you happiest?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
Party, good friends, lots of dancing.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 16 March 2017 source ↗
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View all 158 →Being with my family and kids, on an island, eating and drinking.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 July 2022 source ↗
The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 November 2023 source ↗
A glass of wine at sunset on Fire Island. / No homework.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2011 source ↗
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View profile →Driving golf balls into the cricket pavilion on summer evenings in my pajamas.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗
Selfishness. People who block junctions in their car.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗
Losing my memory.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗
Sohana Collins. A little girl I know who’s extremely brave.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗
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