Watching my wife and children eat.
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2015 source ↗
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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.
To sit by a clear river on a warm day in early July with the smell of cut grass in the air.
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People taking themselves seriously.
Sunday mornings with my parents when I visited from college.
Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
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