What is your idea of perfect happiness?

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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.

Recorded Don Rickles said elsewhere, not written here
Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2003 source ↗

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Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
When I feel as if the people closest to me are happy and healthy and I'm connected with them, and when I feel as if I'm doing things that are making other people better and happy, then I feel real good. That's when I'm at my peak.
Recorded Barbara Walters, ABC News 20/20, broadcast 23 December 2011, 22 December 2011 source ↗
Zadie Smith Novelist and essayist
Reading quietly, in high grass, among loved ones (who are also quietly reading). Followed by a boozy lunch.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 November 2016 source ↗
Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser
I’m walking down a street in New York, the sun is shining, I’m on my way to see friends who are chosen family—and I’ve just written a couple of pages that I like.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗

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