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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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Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2012 source ↗
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball player and author
Being surrounded by my friends and family. Just listening to them interacting, laughing, sharing. It is the culmination of everything I could have hoped for.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗
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.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2015 source ↗

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