Proust Questionnaire: Garrett's answers

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On Thu, 05 May 11 21:18:07 UTC Garrett (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To go through life completely alone.
Where would you like to live?: Any place surrounded by nature.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To feel as though there is nothing that I need (need. not want).
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To my own.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: I do not have heroes of fiction, because I do not regard them as real people. I do, however, have a soft spot for Harry Potter.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: I find the American founding fathers to be extremely fascinating characters.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother, and her mother. Also Sarah Palin. Not because of what she believes, but because of what she has had the guts to do.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The same as heroes. I do not have them.
Your favorite painter?: I do not seem to have one.
Your favorite musician?: Next to Proust's answer, this seems utterly hilarious, but Dave Matthews.
The quality you most admire in a man?: The ability to admit that he is wrong.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: The same. As well as the ability to have self-confidence without appearing conceited.
Your favorite virtue?: I do not have one.
Your favorite occupation?: Whichever one lets me make money while doing something enjoyable, with people that I enjoy.
Who would you have liked to be?: A better version of myself.
Your most marked characteristic?: Hypocrisy.
What do you most value in your friends?: The ways in which they are different from me.
What is your principle defect?: Hypocrisy.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never be loved.
What would you like to be?: Myself, only better.
What is your favorite color?: Blue.
What is your favorite flower?: I do not have one, I enjoy all of nature.
What is your favorite bird?: The cardinal, for just how inexplainably stupid they are.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: The people I follow on tumblr.
Who are your favorite poets?: I would say Poe, simply because he is the only poet who has ever been able to hold my attention.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My parents.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Any woman who has stood up for what she believes in.
What are your favorite names?: I am only kind of partial to my own.
What is it you most dislike?: The things I wish I could change about myself.
What historical figures do you most despise?: They are in the past for a reason.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I cannot say that I have one.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to make people enjoy my company.
How would you like to die?: Happy.
What is your present state of mind?: Like I don't know what to do with myself.
What is your motto?: I do not think that I have one. Or, perhaps I have many.

I'm Garrett, from Georgia. I just finished my freshman year of college. Political science major.

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