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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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James Taylor
Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 May 2015 source ↗
Bob Schieffer
Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 September 2017 source ↗
Whoopi Goldberg
A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 September 2015 source ↗

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