Proust Questionnaire: B's answers

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On Mon, 11 Jan 16 18:46:40 UTC B (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being alone and unhappy
Where would you like to live?: Warm climate, near the beach
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To love and be loved
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness, though it's so self-destructive
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The anti-heroes, with warts and all
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Cleopatra, anyone with an interesting life
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Princess Di, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jackie O, Helen Mirren, my grandmother, anyone bold enough to be themselves proudly
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jane Eyre, Arya Stark, Matilda, anyone strong
Your favorite painter?: Bob Ross, Monet, Van Gogh, Erté
Your favorite musician?: Probably The Beatles, if only for the amount of their songs I adore
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, humor, caring, weirdness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Humor, strength of character, weirdness
Your favorite virtue?: Morality
Your favorite occupation?: artist
Who would you have liked to be?: writer or artist
Your most marked characteristic?: good sense of humor wrapped in weirdness, with a loyal bow on top
What do you most value in your friends?: Being a good friend, sense of humor, kindness
What is your principle defect?: stubbornness, laziness, poor follow through
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never meeting my spouse, never knowing that love
What would you like to be?: Happy. And myself.
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Shakespeare? I don't have a great answer for this.
What is your favorite bird?: lark or sparrow
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I don't have a good answer to this one
Who are your favorite poets?: Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, ee cummings
Who are your heroes in real life?: my grandmother
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra and Anne Boleyn, both strong women who went after what they wanted
What are your favorite names?: What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
What is it you most dislike?: Lying, gossip, or having no morals.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler? He certainly sprang to mind.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I am a hippie in that I say, "Make love, not war," but I realize it is necessary sometimes. Don't have an answer for this, though.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Ability to easily make friends, and more willpower.
How would you like to die?: Peacefully and loved
What is your present state of mind?: Tired but happy
What is your motto?: Always be yourself

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