David Lynch
Film director, screenwriter and painter
What do I think it is? A fulfillment of a desire gives you happiness.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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.
It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 December 2015 source ↗
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View all 160 →Unmade bed surrounded by books, writing utensils, and the dog; a plate of demolished toast with butter on my chest; loved ones puttering not too close but not too far.
To be wildly, desperately, carelessly, nakedly in love, of course. Crazy, obsessive love: brooding, baying at the moon, writing daily missives to the adored. Who wouldn’t want this? Even though the crash is painful.
Bonnie Raitt
Singer and guitarist
Being out in a gorgeous natural setting with time to enjoy.
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View profile →My quick temper and the chaos that ensues in the hurricane that follows.
Ungratefulness.
I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
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