Proust Questionnaire: Brian's answers

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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:09:34 UTC Brian (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To not accomplish anything
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere I can travel from the mountains to the sea at leisure.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to have no worries
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Procrastination
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those overcoming a great injustice.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Those that burn bright for an instant in their life and then die; leaving a legacy for years to come.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Single unwed mothers.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Girls with hard exteriors but soft interiors.
Your favorite painter?: Salvador Dali
Your favorite musician?: Cat Stevens
The quality you most admire in a man?: An open heart
The quality you most admire in a woman?: unique approach to life
Your favorite virtue?: understanding
Your favorite occupation?: Any profession that inspires the imagination.
Who would you have liked to be?: A person who never quit what he started.
Your most marked characteristic?: biting sarcasm that expresses a bitterness that masks a pressing desire to love and be loved
What do you most value in your friends?: Forgiveness and understanding for when I am not at my best
What is your principle defect?: procrastination, need to be right, perfectionism
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: a father seeing his child die
What would you like to be?: Someone for whom there is no confusion with where he is going in life
What is your favorite color?: I have no favorite color.
What is your favorite flower?: I've always been rather fond of Geraniums
What is your favorite bird?: Any bird uncaged, free to spread its wings
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Kurt Vonnegut, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Ayn Rand
Who are your favorite poets?: Robert Frost, John Donne, Edgar Allen Poe, Dylan Thomas
Who are your heroes in real life?: Those who pursue the highest form of art they believe
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Any woman who wasn't weak
What are your favorite names?: The name doesn't really make the person. I do have a preference for foreign names.
What is it you most dislike?: Prejudice, ignorance
What historical figures do you most despise?: Anyone who acted out of nothing but hatred and racism
What event in military history do you most admire?: Battle of New Orleans
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Ability to think on my feet
How would you like to die?: Suddenly and painlessly after achieving my greatest accomplishment in life.
What is your present state of mind?: Tired at having been up all night and depressed that my life is going no where
What is your motto?: If you are honest and true to yourself you can never be crushed by injustice or indifference.

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