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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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John Mellencamp Singer and songwriter
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.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 December 2015 source ↗
John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
When I was growing up on a farm in rural Alabama, I fell in love with raising chickens. They seem truly innocent. Whenever I'm around chickens, I feel happy.
Recorded Vanity Fair, Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗

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