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The question

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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

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Patti LuPone
A calm and peaceful mind, landing a joke, being the name right after “And the winner is…”
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 August 2024 source ↗
T Bone Burnett Musician and record producer
Perfection is a second-rate idea. I would guess, however, that perfected happiness would be joy, the most intricate and mercurial of all sensations. The moment one recognizes joy, it flees. I’m not sure where Proust is going with this line of questioning, and I don’t want to be evasive, so I will say my idea of perfect happiness is the end of economics; we grow like flowers and fly like birds; the lion lays down with the lamb—a ridiculous idea.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2014 source ↗

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