Waking up in the morning is as perfect as anything gets.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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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 trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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When were you happiest?
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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.
A verdant landscape filled with beautiful animals of all kinds, harp music, cumulus clouds in a bright-blue sky, and happy people conversing pleasantly, sipping cold sake from homemade bamboo cups.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2009 source ↗
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Sitting in a living room with my sister, Pat Thaler, and her seven grandchildren and just talking with them. They range in age from 9 to 21 years old.
Falling asleep watching a movie on a sofa because I drank too much wine at dinner, my head resting on the thigh of a loved one, who will later explain what happened.
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View profile →Indecision and wishy-washiness.
I’m a very fearless person.
Any type of indecision.
I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
Right now, in the present. I have a short memory.
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