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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:46:03 UTC Mary (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Never talking to my friends again.
- Where would you like to live?
- NYC, for the activity, and Aix-en-Provence, for the calm.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Being around fun people on a sunny day.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- An inability to exercise any self-control.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- The ones who've suffered.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Picasso. Saw and/or did absolutely everything revolutionary in the 20th century.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- The woman who answers to herself.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Same.
- Your favorite painter?
- Cezanne, Wyeth, and sometimes Beckmann.
- Your favorite musician?
- Jay-Z.
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Tolerance.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Confidence.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Self-awareness, truthfulness and gratitude.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Studying art.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Berthe Morisot.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- The need to entertain and be entertained.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Humour and kindness.
- What is your principle defect?
- Unwillingness to compromise.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Never leaving my hometown.
- What would you like to be?
- Someone worth admiring.
- What is your favorite color?
- A light grey.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Hydrangeas
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- David Sedaris and Kurt Vonnegut
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Eliot
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My mother, and Carol Small.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Catherine the Great.
- What are your favorite names?
- Margaret, Madeleine.
- What is it you most dislike?
- A really bad manager, or outfit.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- I really think they all had a reason to exist. Hating them takes away the good that somehow came from them.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Guernica.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- The ability to be quieter.
- How would you like to die?
- Without a clue it's coming.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Restlessness, and yet also a fear of change.
- What is your motto?
- This too shall pass.
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