Proust Questionnaire: Colin's answers

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On Fri, 14 Dec 12 18:54:29 UTC Colin (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be completely and utterly bored.
Where would you like to live?: In a place that I can get out of.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be in love with life.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Stephen Dedalus, Meursault, Hamlet, Buddy Glass.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: J.D. Salinger, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, Socrates, Shakespeare.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman of brilliance leading an ordinary life.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Lady Brett Ashley, Beatrice, Franny, Patty Berglund.
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh.
Your favorite musician?: Neil Young.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Integrity.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Gentleness, Intelligence, Style.
Your favorite virtue?: All of them.
Your favorite occupation?: Writing.
Who would you have liked to be?: A happy person.
Your most marked characteristic?: Love
What do you most value in your friends?: Patience
What is your principle defect?: Laziness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: The inability to change.
What would you like to be?: Me.
What is your favorite color?: Beauty lies not in colors but in their harmony- Proust
What is your favorite flower?: The smelly ones.
What is your favorite bird?: A warbler.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Kazuo Ishiguro and Antonya Nelson right now.
Who are your favorite poets?: Raymond Carver and Walt Whitman.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Joseph Hughes and my Father.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Helen of Troy and Edie Sedgwick.
What are your favorite names?: Today, probably Zooey.
What is it you most dislike?: Ignorance.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Constantine, Adolf Hitler, and Lenin.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Trojan Horse.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Intense Motivation.
How would you like to die?: Different but the same.
What is your present state of mind?: Bored with the day.
What is your motto?: I have not thought of such a thing in a long time.

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