First of all, to be in love. The second way of being very happy is to be able to get the best out of yourself, whatever it is.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2010 source ↗
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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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.
Waking up in the morning.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2004 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 158 →Monogamy, with the right lady. (Sheer luck.)
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2012 source ↗
The absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2010 source ↗
Contentment with what I have.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2013 source ↗
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View profile →No one I can think of offhand.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2004 source ↗
Not waking up in the morning.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2004 source ↗
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