Reading a book with a dog asleep on either side of me.
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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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 absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2010 source ↗
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A walk on the Golden Strand beach in County Mayo, on the West Coast of Ireland.
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In my bed, a hot-water bottle on my tummy, the windows are open, reading a book that I’m already into, chocolate at hand, all with the knowledge that everyone I love and know is happy.
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Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.
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