Proust Questionnaire: Jeremy Fassler's answers

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On Sat, 10 Mar 12 00:55:28 UTC Jeremy Fassler (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 alone with no friends.
Where would you like to live?: London
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Great conversations with great friends.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The fact that I cannot write down music, or that I am too lazy to school myself in how to do so.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Captain Yossarian, Andrei Bolkonsky, Chauncy Gardner, Sam Dodsworth
Who are your favorite characters in history?: John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My Mom, Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Maude from Harold and Maude, Marge Gunderson, Isabella
Your favorite painter?: Rembrandt
Your favorite musician?: Leonard Bernstein
The quality you most admire in a man?: Openness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A sense of humor
Your favorite virtue?: Humor
Your favorite occupation?: Creating
Who would you have liked to be?: Hugh Hefner
Your most marked characteristic?: My intelligence
What do you most value in your friends?: That they be there for me when I need them
What is your principle defect?: I want to be liked too much
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have not grown up in a family which understood my passions
What would you like to be?: A better version of myself--whatever that entails
What is your favorite color?: Purple
What is your favorite flower?: Men can't really tell the differences between flowers, so roses
What is your favorite bird?: Eagle
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Leo Tolstoy and William Faulkner
Who are your favorite poets?: Yeats and Bob Dylan
Who are your heroes in real life?: FX Feeny, Ginny Russell
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eleanor Roosevelt
What are your favorite names?: Virginia
What is it you most dislike?: An inability to listen
What historical figures do you most despise?: Anyone who had a chance to correct in justice and did nothing, or worse, said that the injustice was correct.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Christmas Peace of WWI
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: I'd like to be taller.
How would you like to die?: I'd like to die having lived a long life, with people knowing what I did was right.
What is your present state of mind?: I have a headache and I need to take Advil.
What is your motto?: All it has to be is good.

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