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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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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 ↗
Carly Simon
The absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2010 source ↗

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Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight
At the SAG awards in 2016. I remember going into that night saying to myself, “I might not be here again; let me be fully in the moment.” The cast of Orange Is the New Black won the acting-ensemble award for the second year in a row, and I was there with a man I truly loved. That night was everything I had always dreamed about.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2018 source ↗

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