Questionnaire de Proust
In the back pages of Vanity Fair each month, readers find The Proust Questionnaire, a series of questions posed to famous subjects about their lives, thoughts, values and experiences. It a very unique way to get to know a person. Here's the backgrounder.
After reading that, I thought, what the heck. Might as well give it a go. My answers are as follows:
Your most marked characteristic? ability to laugh at almost anything
The quality you most like in a man? faithfulness, courage integrity
The quality you most like in a woman? independence, affectionate
What do you most value in your friends? loyalty, candor
What is your principle defect? irritable
What is your favorite occupation? self-proclaimed movie critic/couch potato
What is your dream of happiness? a world free from hunger, disease and war
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? to be alone
What would you like to be? rich enough to be able to help others much less fortunate
In what country would you like to live? spain
What is your favorite color? various shades of green
What is your favorite flower? tulips, carnations and lillies
What is your favorite bird? swan
Who are your favorite prose writers? gabriel garcia marquez, isabel allende, terry pratchett
Who are your favorite poets? john keats, walt whitman
Who is your favorite hero of fiction? jean valjean of les miserables
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction? ursula buendia of one hundred years of solitude
Who are your favorite composers? mozart, lizst, beethoven, rodgers & hammerstein, cole porter, stephen sondheim, andrew lloyd webber, michael jackson
Who are your favorite painters? local: fernando amorsolo and juan luna, foreign: rembrandt
Who are your heroes in real life? margaret thatcher, colin powell, mother teresa, pope john paul ii
What is it you most dislike? discrimination, cruelty to people and animals
What natural gift would you most like to possess? unfailing cheerfulness
How would you like to die? quickly and without pain
What is your present state of mind? contemplative
To what faults do you feel most indulgent? generous to a fault
What is your motto? the greatest glory is never in falling; it is in rising each and every time you fall
Now, it's your turn...
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