Proust Questionnaire: Amanda's answers

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On Fri, 29 May 2009 01:28:58 UTC Amanda answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: A world without music
Where would you like to live?: In reality
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be surrounded by love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Defeatism
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Common folks with extraordinary lives
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Abraham Lincoln, Alfred Kinsey, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Harriet Tubman
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Single mothers making it work
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: I find it hard to admire fictitious people.
Your favorite painter?: Renoir
Your favorite musician?: Anyone who believes what they play
The quality you most admire in a man?: Decisiveness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Strength
Your favorite virtue?: Humility
Your favorite occupation?: Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself...with a smaller head.
Your most marked characteristic?: Humor
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Lack of faith
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Having never been loved
What would you like to be?: Fulfilled
What is your favorite color?: Color
What is your favorite flower?: One that still grows
What is your favorite bird?: Hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Alice Walker
Who are your favorite poets?: Whitman
Who are your heroes in real life?: Mom
What are your favorite names?: All of them
What is it you most dislike?: Intolerance
What historical figures do you most despise?: I cannot despise those I do not know
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Confidence
How would you like to die?: Laughing
What is your present state of mind?: Amused...and slightly crazy
What is your motto?: Don't ever have mottos.

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