At sunset or under the stars on the dock of our lake house just being with my family and pals.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Question
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
Question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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.
I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2022 source ↗
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