When the coffee kicks in early in the morning and I’m on the couch with my dogs, reading the paper.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
Life with no Instagram and no selfies. I am so tired of looking at people staring out of the window of a private plane with a small dog in their laps.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 February 2020 source ↗
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Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
Watching a great movie in the afternoon and then taking a long nap.
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