Proust Questionnaire: James's answers

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On Tue, 15 May 12 04:22:41 UTC James (30) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be in pain.
Where would you like to live?: A small, quiet town on a coast
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be surrounded by friends, with the ability to read, and to be able to experience art and beauty all around me
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Envy, Doubt, Bitterness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Jay Gatsby, Don Draper, Hank Moody, Roger Sterling, Aloyosha Fyodorov,
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My Mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Oedipa Maas
Your favorite painter?: Matisse
Your favorite musician?: Ryan Adams
The quality you most admire in a man?: Loyalty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Kindness
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness
Your favorite occupation?: Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: A soldier in World War II
Your most marked characteristic?: A need to be liked and accepted
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Dishonesty
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be alone
What would you like to be?: Respected
What is your favorite color?: Black
What is your favorite flower?: Roses
What is your favorite bird?: Mockingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Dostoyevsky, Fitzgerald, Sarah Vowell, Erik Larsen, Tolstoy,
Who are your favorite poets?: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Who are your heroes in real life?: Those that help Third World countries
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Mother,
What are your favorite names?: Myra, Thomas (my parents)
What is it you most dislike?: myself
What historical figures do you most despise?: everyone that has oppressed the weak.
What event in military history do you most admire?: right now, Operation Anthropoid
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: the ability to speak more clearly
How would you like to die?: peacefully
What is your present state of mind?: distracted
What is your motto?: life, living it

I feel that I rushed through these a bit, but it's easy to overthing them, I think.

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