I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.
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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.
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Making trails and building a tree house.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 March 2015 source ↗
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Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
Every single person and living creature on the planet is safe and well nourished.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
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Lack of purpose.
Chuck Feeney (the James Bond of philanthropy).
Playing catch with my son Noah at Fenway Park.
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