Proust Questionnaire: April's answers

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On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:24:19 UTC April (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To fail my dreams
Where would you like to live?: In a cottage near the sea
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live in tranquility, accompanied by a large library, a piano, a violin, a group of friends... and wi-fi
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Delusions of grandeur
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Captain Wentworth, men who reclaim themselves from their own mistakes
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Machiavelli, Handel, Warhol, Joyce and da Vinci
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Gaskell, Austen, Rand, Potter and Thatcher
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, women who did not settle for less
Your favorite painter?: Monet, Vermeer, Dali, Cezanne and Hopper
Your favorite musician?: Puccini, Glass, Bach, Shostakovich and Strauss
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, sense of fairness, conviction and ability to love unselfishly
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Tenacity, integrity, introspection and vivacity
Your favorite virtue?: Reason and optimism
Your favorite occupation?: Planning, dreaming, reading, listening to music and debating
Who would you have liked to be?: I only want to be who I can perceive to be. Other than that, perhaps, a man.
Your most marked characteristic?: The determination to know my limits
What do you most value in your friends?: Their patience - mostly to listen to me and to try understand my ideas
What is your principle defect?: Excessive worrying and a tendency to procrastinate in the face of such anxiety
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Not to have known better
What would you like to be?: Everything I think I can be, even when I've turned old and gray
What is your favorite color?: Green - we need more of that now
What is your favorite flower?: Nature is most beautiful in its diversity
What is your favorite bird?: Parrot
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Joyce, Austen, Dumas and Asimov
Who are your favorite poets?: Frost and Blake
Who are your heroes in real life?: Women in my family, Anna Wintour
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I
What are your favorite names?: I'll know when I hear it.
What is it you most dislike?: My own cynicism toward my own ideas and goals
What historical figures do you most despise?: I cannot despise them, for I do not truly know them
What event in military history do you most admire?: End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Singing prowess, artistic ability, and effortless beauty and grace
How would you like to die?: Quick, silent, cherished and remembered
What is your present state of mind?: Suffering from writer's block, worried about my own future
What is your motto?: There is one for every occasion.

Great cure for writer's block.

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