Proust Questionnaire: Candy's answers

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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:17:29 UTC Candy answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To never leave home for someplace else
Where would you like to live?: United Kingdom
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live with someone I consider my other half, have children, study many things and languages, travel extensively, and laugh many times a day.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To my lying, perhaps
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: My favorites are those who are real, brusque, and not afraid to say what is on their mind in fear of it being seen as a social faux pas
Who are your favorite characters in history?: King Henry VIII Tudor, Anne Boleyn, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria I, Queen Elizabeth I, King James VI of Scotland
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who are vibrant, creative, and inspiring. Women who smile often, for various reasons.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who set out with lofty goals, and manage in the most part, to achieve them. Women of power.
Your favorite painter?: Salvador Dali
Your favorite musician?: James
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, Humor, Kindness, Liveliness, Openmindedness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, Naturalness, Humor, Openmindedness, and Beauty
Your favorite virtue?: Curiosity
Your favorite occupation?: Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone of noble blood, as I would be well suited for such a thing, yet others who were, were not compatible with the lifestyle.
Your most marked characteristic?: My open-mindedness
What do you most value in your friends?: Diversity
What is your principle defect?: Stubbornness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have been born without a pretty face
What would you like to be?: Myself.
What is your favorite color?: Confederate gray
What is your favorite flower?: Orchid
What is your favorite bird?: The hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Michael Crichton, Christopher Moore, Lewis Carroll, Jean Plaidy, Margaret George, and J.K. Rowling.
Who are your favorite poets?: Baudelaire, Whitman, Poe.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My friends, often.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn, Eleanor of Aquitaine
What are your favorite names?: Those old or quirky or foreign.
What is it you most dislike?: Snakes
What historical figures do you most despise?: Oliver Cromwell, for certain.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Any of Caesar's campaigns
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm
How would you like to die?: I would like to die peacefully, when I have gotten what I wished out of life, and am content for the "next adventure."
What is your present state of mind?: Fairly calm, and happy. Introspective, as might be expected.
What is your motto?: There's always more than one side to a story.

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