Being at home, watching a good movie with my husband. Dining out with good friends.
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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.
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
When I feel as if the people closest to me are happy and healthy and I'm connected with them, and when I feel as if I'm doing things that are making other people better and happy, then I feel real good. That's when I'm at my peak.
Contentment with what I have.
Being with my husband, David, and the boys.
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My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
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