Proust Questionnaire: Jules's answers

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On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:00:05 UTC Jules (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Ingratitude, defeatism, hopelessness; watching a loved one suffer
Where would you like to live?: Home... or wherever the heart is
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Coziness; eloquence of one's genuine self
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Reticence, skepticism, (overly) people-pleasing
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Tintin et Milou, Charlie Brown, Le Petit Prince
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Teddy Kennedy, Golda Meir, Beatrix Potter, Katharine Graham, Mahatma Gandhi
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Unremunerative humanitarians, underdogs who triumph; my dear friend, Ann Curry; my mom
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Mathilda, Mrs. Dalloway, Jane Eyre
Your favorite painter?: Berthe Morisot, Lilla Cabot Perry, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth Peyton, Will Barnet, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, Julian Schnabel, Gustav Klimt, Pierre-Auguste Renoir... and the fairy tale magic of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and John Anster Fitzgerald
Your favorite musician?: Composers? Claude Debussy, George Gershwin, Frédéric Chopin, Erik Satie
The quality you most admire in a man?: Warmth, wisdom, wit, sincerity, phlegm
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Moxie, tenderness, sagacity, forthrightness, a point of view
Your favorite virtue?: Ahimsa, altruism, ebullience, empathy, humility, mettle
Your favorite occupation?: Fashion writer/editor; growing up I aspired to be an art historian, public servant, investigative journalist, political analyst.. and more fancifully a professional daydreamer, perfumer or muse
Who would you have liked to be?: My cat
What do you most value in your friends?: Tenderhearted candor; palpable endearment
What is your principle defect?: Dashing to quietude in lieu of carousing by not partaking in life's boons and chances
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Losing hope
What would you like to be?: Of some fair contribution
What is your favorite color?: Periwinkle, lemon chiffon, robin egg blue
What is your favorite flower?: Fluffy hydrangeas, damask and cabbage roses, wild ferns
What is your favorite bird?: Cuckoos and penguins
Who are your favorite prose writers?: At the moment – Joan Didion, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Austen and Henry James
Who are your favorite poets?: Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Erica Jong, William Shakespeare's sonnets
Who are your heroes in real life?: my late grandfathers, James R. Frakes and Irwin E. Alperin; my uncle and godfather, Jonathan Frakes
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Esther, Joan of Arc
What are your favorite names?: Ella, Henleigh, Charlie
What is it you most dislike?: Ungratefulness; unwarranted kvetching or complaining
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler, Adolf Stoecker, Pavel Krushevan, William Dudley Pelley; figures who advocated groundless or gratuitous violence or hatred
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to dance
What is your motto?: "He has found his style when he cannot do otherwise." – Paul Klee

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