Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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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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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.
Drinks on the deck at sunset.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 1999 source ↗
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Seeing my family thrive and being underwater.
George Saunders
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Being aware and accepting of whatever the state of my mind happens to be at the moment (even if that state is unhappy).
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Their frankness and honesty.
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