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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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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.

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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 ↗
George Saunders Short-story writer and novelist
Being aware and accepting of whatever the state of my mind happens to be at the moment (even if that state is unhappy).
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 January 2023 source ↗

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