The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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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What do you value most in your friends?
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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.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗
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View all 161 →Late one Sunday afternoon, my three-year-old granddaughter, out of the blue, took my hand and said she wanted to whisper something to me. Could we go for a ride around the block before we all sat down for dinner? Just the two of us? Holding hands as we walked to and from the car in the driveway: Bliss.
I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
A glass of wine, a good dinner with my husband, and a day ahead of me without a deadline is close enough.
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View profile →My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
I can be pedantic at times.
The inability to listen.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
Being able to share a confidence.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
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