Eating breakfast foods at a time of the day other than breakfast. Pancakes for dinner—I’m happy.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 April 2014 source ↗
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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?Originally asked
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Eating breakfast foods at a time of the day other than breakfast. Pancakes for dinner—I’m happy.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 April 2014 source ↗
Eating dan dan noodles with my wife.
Falling asleep watching a movie on a sofa because I drank too much wine at dinner, my head resting on the thigh of a loved one, who will later explain what happened.
I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.
Party, good friends, lots of dancing.
I would talk slower. When I hear myself interviewed sometimes it sounds like I’m running an auction.
My ability to invariably say exactly the wrong thing in any given situation.
I like all my friends for different reasons, so it’s hard to pick one quality I value most highly overall.
It’s hard to pick one time. I feel like I’m quite a happy person. My ninth birthday was epic, though.
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