Proust Questionnaire: Claire's answers

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On Sun, 06 Jun 10 12:59:45 +0000 Claire answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: A nine-to-five.
Where would you like to live?: In or surrounded by nature.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A spoonful of honey.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Flippancy.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The ones who lie and steal and smoke and aren't heroes at all.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: I don't really have an answer for this.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who are okay with being smart, funny, and successful.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The ones who don't have a romance with another character at any point during the story line.
Your favorite painter?: Definitely Salvador Dali. Or maybe Picasso.
Your favorite musician?: The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (b. Steven Demetre Georgiou)
The quality you most admire in a man?: A sense of humor. Second is an open mind.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Verve.
Your favorite virtue?: Maturity.
Your favorite occupation?: Writing and cooking.
Who would you have liked to be?: Jackie O.
Your most marked characteristic?: Flippancy.
What do you most value in your friends?: Their open minds and endless support.
What is your principle defect?: My really complex confidence.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be alone in a life filled with people.
What would you like to be?: A writer, happy, and/or loved.
What is your favorite color?: A tie between sunrise and sunset
What is your favorite flower?: Probably day lilies, but it's hard for me to pick.
What is your favorite bird?: The vulture.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I could never choose just one. Karl Marx.
Who are your favorite poets?: Whitman
Who are your heroes in real life?: The courageous members of our generation who set themselves apart from their peers.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I. A ginger and a woman... she had a lot to overcome
What are your favorite names?: Ruth and Joshua
What is it you most dislike?: When a person doesn't see what's right in front of them.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Mussolini, and Jeremy Bentham.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Keeping peace.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm.
How would you like to die?: Excitingly.
What is your present state of mind?: Contentedness, mostly.
What is your motto?: Hit it and quit it.

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