A family dinner. Candlelight. Lots of laughs.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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When were you happiest?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 September 2017 source ↗
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Being healthy. Sometimes we don’t know that we’re not healthy because we’re not going to the doctor—like me, when I first discovered I had diabetes years ago.
When the coffee kicks in early in the morning and I’m on the couch with my dogs, reading the paper.
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View profile →Absentmindedness.
When I finished writing a book.
Talking too much.
Failure to be on time.
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