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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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.
Finally, a happy marriage, of now 39 years!
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 February 2011 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 158 →I’m walking down the street angrily muttering to myself and then I run into a neighbor or former coworker and they catch me in this moment of private-public expression. It’s nice to be seen sometimes.
At sunset or under the stars on the dock of our lake house just being with my family and pals.
A beautiful meal and a glass of wine with my favorite people and lots of laughter ringing around the table.
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View profile →Having gone through the depression of ’29, I’d hate to see the U.S. hit bottom and not come back!
My own doctor, Paul Rudnick.
When: I finish a good scene. Where: looking back, in the navy.
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